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Abhay

#4,538 in 2025Boys' name

Fearless

Abhay has been given to 920 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #4,538 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 49 recorded.

Babies named Abhay, 2025

1 in 151,000

Abhay over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Abhay: meaning, origin, and history

Fearless

Sanskrit

What Abhay means

Abhay means “fearless”, associated with abhaya.

Origin, language, and formation

Abhay is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 920 boys were recorded with the name Abhay between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 49 in 2016; its best national rank was #2,551 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,731 in 2020 to #4,538 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,022 in 2015 to #4,538 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 Abhay?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 151,000
22 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 77,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,538
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Abhay 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 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Abhay. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Abhays were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Abhay was born before 2012 — so the typical Abhay is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
43.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
920
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 43.0% of all recorded uses (396).

Is Abhay 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
−1,493
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−807
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,516
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.58×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
44.9%
Peak was 2016 (49)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,551
2016

Spellings of Abhay

Abhay is not the most common spelling — Abram is, with 41.6% against Abhay's 1.9%.

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 Abhay is used

Across 1910–2025, Abhay was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 262,684 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Washington1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5North Carolina1 in —
  6. 6New Jersey1 in —
  7. 7New York1 in —
  8. 8Texas1 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. Abhay has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Abhay around the world

Where Abhay 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
    1997–2025
    #2,269
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2024
    #1,964
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2005–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Abhay by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,538
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 807
Best rank ever
#2,551
2016
Peak year
2016
49 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
920
Count in 2025
22

Names similar to Abhay

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

AbhiramAbhiAbhinavAkshayOshayAbhirAbhirajAbhishekShayAbhimanyuChayAbhyantKrishayAbhikDeshayIshayAbhijayJhayAbhayramAbhijotAbhijitAshayAashayRidhay

Sibling names for Abhay

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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