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Abena

#7,136 in 2025Girls' name

Born on Tuesday

Abena has been given to 672 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #7,136 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Abena, 2025

1 in 221,000

Abena over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Abena: meaning, origin, and history

Born on Tuesday

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Abena means

Abena means “born on Tuesday”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 672 girls were recorded with the name Abena between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 25 in 2006; its best national rank was #3,480 in 1973.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,462 in 2020 to #7,136 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,443 in 2015 to #7,136 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.

How common is Abena?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,136
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Abena sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Abena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Abenas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Abena was born before 2002 — so the typical Abena is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
25.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
53.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
672
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Choose a decade

2000s — 25.9% of all recorded uses (174).

Is Abena 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
+1,303
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+6,326
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,307
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.15×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.0%
Peak was 2006 (25)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,480
1973

Spellings of Abena

Abena is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 45.9% against Abena's 0.03%.

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.

Where Abena is used

Across 1910–2025, Abena was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 218,788 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2Maryland1 in —
  3. 3Virginia1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Abena has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Abena around the world

Where Abena 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
    1996–2025
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2011–2011
    #3,211
    in 2011

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.

Abena by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,136
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 6,326
Best rank ever
#3,480
1973
Peak year
2006
25 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
672
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Abena

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

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Sibling names for Abena

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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