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Abhijit

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Abhijit has been given to 47 babies in the U.S. since 1997. 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 2000, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Abhijit, 2014

1 in 741,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Abhijit: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Sanskrit

What Abhijit means

Abhijit is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Abhijit is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 47 boys were recorded with the name Abhijit between 1997 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2000; its best national rank was #8,113 in 1997.

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 Abhijit?

Abhijit had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2014
1 in 741,000
5 of 3,706,812 births
Among boys only
1 in 384,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2014
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,874 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Abhijit 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 2014 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 513,874 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Abhijit. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Abhijits were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Abhijit was born before 2001 — so the typical Abhijit is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
55.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
47
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 55.3% of all recorded uses (26).

Is Abhijit 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
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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 2000 (7)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,113
1997

Abhijit around the world

Where Abhijit 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
    2002–2002
    #3,225
    in 2002
  • Canada
    2004–2013
    #2,635
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    2006–2013
    #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.

Abhijit by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#8,113
1997
Peak year
2000
7 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
47
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Abhijit

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

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Sibling names for Abhijit

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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