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Abhi

#9,729 in 2025Boys' name

Diminutive of Abhilasha or Abhinav or Abhishek

Abhi has been given to 298 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #9,729 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Abhi, 2025

1 in 474,000

Abhi over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Abhi: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Abhilasha or Abhinav or Abhishek

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Abhi means

Abhi is a diminutive of Abhilasha or Abhinav or Abhishek.

Origin, language, and formation

Abhi is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Abhilasha, Abhinav and Abhishek.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 298 boys were recorded with the name Abhi between 1997 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 21 in 2007; its best national rank was #4,272 in 2003.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,038 in 2020 to #9,729 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,997 in 2015 to #9,729 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 Abhi?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,729
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Abhi 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Abhi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Abhis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Abhi was born before 2010 — so the typical Abhi is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
44.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
298
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Choose a decade

2000s — 44.0% of all recorded uses (131).

Is Abhi 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
+170
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,309
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,732
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
33.3%
Peak was 2007 (21)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,272
2003

Spellings of Abhi

Abhi is not the most common spelling — Abel is, with 41.6% against Abhi's 0.19%.

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 Abhi is used

Across 1910–2025, Abhi was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,905,450 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Abhi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Abhi around the world

Where Abhi 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
    2005–2020
    #4,608
    in 2020
  • France
    2021–2021
    #5,599
    in 2021
  • Canada
    2010–2010
    #2,676
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Abhi by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,729
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,309
Best rank ever
#4,272
2003
Peak year
2007
21 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
298
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Abhi

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

AbhayAbhirAbhirajAbhiramAbhimanyuAbhyantAbhinavAbhikAbhijayAbhayramAbhijotAbhishekAbhijitAbhijeetSubhiAbheekAbhilashAbhirupRibhiAbhinayAbhyudayAbhiraam

Sibling names for Abhi

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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