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Abas

#10,700 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Abas has been given to 115 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #10,700 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Abas, 2025

1 in 553,000

Abas over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Abas: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Abas means

Abas is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Abas is used in Kavalan and Sherbro.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 115 boys were recorded with the name Abas between 2001 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2005; its best national rank was #6,929 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,067 in 2020 to #10,700 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,091 in 2015 to #10,700 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Abas?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,700
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Abas sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Abas. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Abass were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Abas was born before 2014 — so the typical Abas is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
115
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Choose a decade

2010s — 37.4% of all recorded uses (43).

Is Abas 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,633
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,391
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.20×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.0%
Peak was 2005 (10)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,929
2001

Spellings of Abas

Abas is not the most common spelling — Adam is, with 47.0% against Abas's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Abas around the world

Where Abas 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 & Wales
    1996–2019
    #3,937
    in 2019
  • France
    1992–2018
    #5,358
    in 2018

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Abas by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,700
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,633
Best rank ever
#6,929
2001
Peak year
2005
10 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
115
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Abas

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Abas

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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