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Abhishek

Boys' name

Sprinkling, irrigation, moistening or watering with, through अभिषेक

Abhishek has been given to 758 babies in the U.S. since 1981. 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 63 recorded.

Babies named Abhishek, 2018

1 in 703,000

Abhishek over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Abhishek: meaning, origin, and history

Sprinkling, irrigation, moistening or watering with, through अभिषेक

Sanskrit

What Abhishek means

Abhishek belongs to the name family reached through Abhishek → अभिषेक. Its meaning is “sprinkling, irrigation, moistening or watering with”.

Origin, language, and formation

Abhishek is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Abhishek comes through Sanskrit अभिषेक.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include अभिषेक.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 758 boys were recorded with the name Abhishek between 1981 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 63 in 2000; its best national rank was #1,707 in 1999.

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 Abhishek?

Abhishek 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 703,000
5 of 3,516,853 births
Among boys only
1 in 363,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
487,541 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Abhishek 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 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 487,541 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Abhishek. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Abhisheks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Abhishek was born before 2000 — so the typical Abhishek is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
48.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
758
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 48.2% of all recorded uses (365).

Is Abhishek 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 (63)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,707
1999

Where Abhishek is used

Across 1910–2025, Abhishek was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 269,290 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 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. Abhishek has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Abhishek around the world

Where Abhishek 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
    1996–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2009
    #2,374
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    2010–2012
    #771
    in 2012

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.

Abhishek 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
—
Best rank ever
#1,707
1999
Peak year
2000
63 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
758
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Abhishek

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

AbhiramAbhimanyuAbhinavAbhayAbhirajAbhayramAbhyantAbhiAbhijayAbhijeetAbhijotAbhijitAbhilashAbhyudayAbhirAbishekAbhiraamAbhirupAbhikAbhinayAbheekAvishek

Sibling names for Abhishek

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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