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Abuk

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Abuk has been given to 76 babies in the U.S. since 2005. 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 2005, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Abuk, 2023

1 in 552,000

Abuk over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Abuk: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Abuk means

Abuk is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Abuk is used in Pazeh.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 76 girls were recorded with the name Abuk between 2005 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2005; its best national rank was #12,722 in 2017.

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 Abuk?

Abuk had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 552,000
6 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 267,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
382,940 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Abuk sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 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 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Abuk. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Abuks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Abuk was born before 2015 — so the typical Abuk is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
52.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
76
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 52.6% of all recorded uses (40).

Is Abuk 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 2005 (7)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#12,722
2017

Spellings of Abuk

Abuk is not the most common spelling — Abby is, with 85.1% against Abuk's 0.10%.

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.

Abuk around the world

Where Abuk 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.

  • Canada
    2006–2012
    #3,249
    in 2012
  • South Australia
    2007–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Abuk by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#12,722
2017
Peak year
2005
7 that year
First recorded
2005
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
76
Count in 2025
Under 5

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Sibling names for Abuk

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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