Abha

Girls' name

Lustre, brilliance, shine

Abha has been given to 57 babies in the U.S. since 1980. 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 2016, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Abha, 2018

1 in 502,000

Abha over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Abha: meaning, origin, and history

Lustre, brilliance, shine

Sanskrit

What Abha means

Abha means “lustre, brilliance, shine”, associated with ābhā.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Sanskrit आभा (ābhā, “lustre, brilliance, shine”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Abha (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Abha is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 57 girls were recorded with the name Abha between 1980 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2016; its best national rank was #8,177 in 1980.

How common is Abha?

Abha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018: 1 in 502,000; 7 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only: 1 in 243,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 348,244 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Abha 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 2018 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 348,244 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Abha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Abhas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Abha was born before 2011 — so the typical Abha is around 14 today.

Median birth year: 2011; About 14 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 56.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 87.7%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 57; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 56.1% of all recorded uses (32).

Is Abha 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: 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 2016 (10)
Years since peak: 9; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 33.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #8,177; 1980

Spellings of Abha

Abha is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 39.8% against Abha's <0.01%.

Anna39.8%914,859
Ava15.0%344,097
Alma7.1%163,723
Ana4.8%111,359
Ada4.7%106,905
Aria4.2%95,674
Abby2.7%61,855
Sasha1.7%38,492

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.

Abha around the world

Where Abha 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
2020–2020
#5,493
in 2020

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Abha by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #8,177; 1980
Peak year: 2016; 10 that year
First recorded: 1980
Last recorded: 2018
All-time count: 57
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Abha

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

Eabha Aabha Abhigna Abhaya Vibha Sabha Shubha Abhinaya Abhirami

Sibling names for Abha

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

For a sister

Karleigh Hadlee Heavenly Scarlette Henley Raylee Harleigh Galilea

For a brother

Smith Damari Kye Canaan Vladimir Cayson Hamilton Kingsley

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