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Abu

#5,608 in 2025Boys' name

Father of

Abu has been given to 468 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #5,608 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Abu, 2025

1 in 207,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Abu: meaning, origin, and history

Father of

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Abu means

Abu means “father of”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 468 boys were recorded with the name Abu between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2007; its best national rank was #3,443 in 1973.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,743 in 2020 to #5,608 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,580 in 2015 to #5,608 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.

How common is Abu?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,608
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Abu 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Abu. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Abus were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Abu was born before 2004 — so the typical Abu is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
27.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
58.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
468
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 27.6% of all recorded uses (129).

Is Abu 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
+2,162
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,135
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,972
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.29×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
94.1%
Peak was 2007 (17)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,443
1973

Where Abu is used

Across 1910–2025, Abu was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 380,681 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. Abu has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Abu around the world

Where Abu 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
    #679
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2011–2011
    #648
    in 2011
  • France
    2012–2025
    #2,612
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2000–2024
    #1,698
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2008–2008
    #726
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Abu by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,608
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,135
Best rank ever
#3,443
1973
Peak year
2007
17 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
468
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Abu

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

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Sibling names for Abu

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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