Abanoub
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Abanoub has been given to 191 babies in the U.S. since 1991. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2017, with 14 recorded.
Babies named Abanoub, 2023
1 in 414,000
Abanoub over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Abanoub?
Abanoub had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,314,783 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 214,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,205 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Abanoub sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 287,205 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Abanoub. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Abanoubs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Abanoub was born before 2011 — so the typical Abanoub is around 14 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 39.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 76.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 191
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 39.8% of all recorded uses (76).
Is Abanoub rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2017 (14)
- Years since peak
- 8
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 41.2% average annual change
Where Abanoub is used
Across 1910–2025, Abanoub was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,389,808 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2New Jersey1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Abanoub has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Abanoub around the world
Where Abanoub ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1996–2024#3,689in 2024
- Canada2017–2024#2,134in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Abanoub by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Abanoub
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Abanoub
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.