Absalon

Boys' name

Variant of Absalom

Absalon has been given to 33 babies in the U.S. since 1985. 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 2006, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Absalon, 2008

1 in 562,000

Absalon over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Absalon: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Absalom

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Absalon means

Absalon is a variant of Absalom.

Origin, language, and formation

Absalon is used in Danish, Faroese, Icelandic and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Absalom.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 33 boys were recorded with the name Absalon between 1985 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2006; its best national rank was #6,522 in 1985.

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.

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How common is Absalon?

Absalon had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2008: 1 in 562,000; 7 of 3,930,727 births
Among boys only: 1 in 291,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2008: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 389,226 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Absalon 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 2008 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 389,226 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Absalon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Absalons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Absalon was born before 1999 — so the typical Absalon is around 26 today.

Median birth year: 1999; About 26 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 48.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 33; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 48.5% of all recorded uses (16).

Is Absalon 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: —; 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 2006 (9)
Years since peak: 19; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #6,522; 1985

Spellings of Absalon

Absalon is not the most common spelling — Arsalan is, with 95.6% against Absalon's 4.4%.

Arsalan95.6%713
Absalon4.4%33

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.

Absalon 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: #6,522; 1985
Peak year: 2006; 9 that year
First recorded: 1985
Last recorded: 2008
All-time count: 33
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Absalon

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

Quaylon Avalon Dreylon Callon Dwaylon Abshir Jakylon Aylon Absalom Hughlon Dhillon Taelon Greylon Rhylon Draylon Dellon Skylon Traelon Brailon Berlon Caelon Drelon Khylon Brelon

Sibling names for Absalon

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Taniya Melia Jazmyne Jayna Nyasia Tayla Lanie Estefany

For a brother

Paulo Yair Lavon Tye Deshaun Oswaldo Nathen Britton

Explore around Absalon

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