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Abhinav

#7,196 in 2025Boys' name

Young, fresh

Abhinav has been given to 1,966 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #7,196 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 133 recorded.

Babies named Abhinav, 2025

1 in 301,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Abhinav: meaning, origin, and history

Young, fresh

Sanskrit

What Abhinav means

Abhinav means “young, fresh”.

Origin, language, and formation

Abhinav is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,966 boys were recorded with the name Abhinav between 1990 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 133 in 2008; its best national rank was #1,303 in 2008.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,346 in 2020 to #7,196 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,299 in 2015 to #7,196 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 Abhinav?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 155,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,196
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Abhinav 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Abhinav. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Abhinavs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Abhinav was born before 2008 — so the typical Abhinav is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
48.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,966
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Choose a decade

2000s — 48.0% of all recorded uses (943).

Is Abhinav 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
−1,755
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,850
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,897
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.19×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.3%
Peak was 2008 (133)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,303
2008

Spellings of Abhinav

Abhinav is the most-used spelling, taking 60.0% of the 3,274 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Abhinav is used

Across 1910–2025, Abhinav was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 113,230 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 100,000
  4. 4Maryland1 in 100,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 100,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 100,000
  7. 7Virginia1 in 100,000
  8. 8Washington1 in 100,000

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

Abhinav around the world

Where Abhinav 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
    1996–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • Scotland
    2006–2014
    #680
    in 2014
  • Ireland
    2009–2011
    #730
    in 2011
  • France
    2023–2023
    #7,016
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1996–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2008–2011
    #784
    in 2011

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

Abhinav by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,196
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,850
Best rank ever
#1,303
2008
Peak year
2008
133 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,966
Count in 2025
11

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Sibling names for Abhinav

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