Abu
#5,608 for boys in 2025, 16 births
- Peak · boys
- 1973 · 9 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 468since 1971
Abu over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Abu has never cracked the top 3,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,608 | 16 |
| 2024 | #7,765 | 10 |
| 2023 | #8,255 | 9 |
| 2022 | #7,768 | 10 |
| 2021 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2020 | #8,739 | 8 |
| 2019 | #8,889 | 8 |
| 2018 | #5,540 | 16 |
| 2017 | #6,685 | 12 |
| 2016 | #12,185 | 5 |
| 2015 | #9,568 | 7 |
| 2014 | #9,642 | 7 |
| 2013 | #8,789 | 8 |
| 2012 | #7,050 | 11 |
| 2011 | #5,945 | 14 |
| 2010 | #8,139 | 9 |
| 2009 | #6,095 | 14 |
| 2008 | #5,767 | 15 |
| 2007 | #5,210 | 17 |
| 2006 | #5,525 | 15 |
| 2005 | #5,875 | 13 |
| 2004 | #6,976 | 10 |
| 2003 | #7,245 | 9 |
| 2002 | #5,395 | 13 |
| 2001 | #6,445 | 10 |
| 2000 | #5,297 | 13 |
| 1999 | #6,042 | 10 |
| 1998 | #6,314 | 9 |
| 1997 | #4,668 | 13 |
| 1996 | #4,613 | 13 |
| 1995 | #6,992 | 7 |
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| 1993 | #6,816 | 7 |
| 1992 | #8,435 | 5 |
| 1991 | #5,521 | 9 |
| 1990 | #7,178 | 6 |
| 1989 | #5,615 | 8 |
| 1988 | #4,786 | 9 |
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| 1985 | #5,147 | 7 |
| 1984 | #4,973 | 7 |
| 1983 | #6,238 | 5 |
| 1982 | #5,619 | 6 |
| 1981 | #4,961 | 7 |
| 1980 | #3,615 | 11 |
| 1979 | #4,403 | 8 |
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| 1977 | #5,845 | 5 |
| 1976 | #4,418 | 7 |
| 1975 | #4,797 | 6 |
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| 1973 | #3,445 | 9 |
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| 1971 | #3,658 | 8 |
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First appearance
1971
The first year at least five boys were named Abu! It came in at #3,658, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1972, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Abu
Momentum · boys
Rising
- 2,157 spots since 2024 (#7,765 → #5,608)
- 3,131 spots since 2020 (#8,739 → #5,608)
- 3,960 spots since 2015 (#9,568 → #5,608)
Rise & fade · boys
2 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 1973 at #3,445 (9 births)
- Births halved by 1974, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 106,755
- Highest: 1 in 106,755 boys born in 2025 were named Abu (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,445 in 1973, was only 1 in 173,175 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
- 27.6% of all boys named Abu (129) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 43 | #3,445 (1973) | #4,428 |
| 1980s | 60 | #3,615 (1980) | #5,119 |
| 1990s | 79 | #4,613 (1996) | #6,287 |
| 2000s | 129 | #5,210 (2007) | #5,983 |
| 2010s | 97 | #5,540 (2018) | #8,243 |
| 2020s | 60 | #5,608 (2025) | #7,975 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Abu in 1979
boys
#4,403
8 births · 1 in 215,192 boys
Top boys' names in 1979
More about 1979
boys
1,721,536 boys got a published name in 1979; 1 in 215,192 of them was named Abu, which outranked 37.7% of the 7,071 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).