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Abou

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Abou has been given to 104 babies in the U.S. since 2001. 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 2022, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Abou, 2024

1 in 557,000

Abou over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Abou: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Abou means

Abou is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Abou is used in French.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Abou is pronounced /a.bu/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 104 boys were recorded with the name Abou between 2001 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2022; its best national rank was #8,302 in 2022.

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 Abou?

Abou had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 287,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Abou 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Abou. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Abous were born

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

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
47.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
104
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Choose a decade

2000s — 47.1% of all recorded uses (49).

Is Abou 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2022 (9)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,302
2022

Spellings of Abou

Abou is not the most common spelling — Bob is, with 34.6% against Abou's 0.04%.

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 Abou is used

Across 1910–2025, Abou was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,211,258 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Abou has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Abou around the world

Where Abou 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
    2012–2012
    #4,805
    in 2012
  • France
    1968–2025
    #928
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Abou 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
#8,302
2022
Peak year
2022
9 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
104
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Abou

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

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Sibling names for Abou

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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