Abbas
Abbas was given to 61 boys in 2025, #2,284 among boys’ names; 1,843 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,810 Americans named Abbas and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Abbas by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Abbas mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Abbas is “a male given name from Arabic.” Its etymology gives the senses “one who frowns a lot; untamed lion” (عَبَّاس) and “to frown” (عَبَسَ).
From Arabic عَبَّاس (ʕabbās, “one who frowns a lot; untamed lion”), from عَبَسَ (ʕabasa, “to frown”), the title of the eightieth sura of the Qur’an.
/əˈbɑːs/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Abbas?
#2,284 among boys’ names, 2025
Abbas fell from #1,955 in 2015 to #2,284 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 38.6 to 35.7 per million.
95 babies in 2018, the peak
Abbas peaked in 2018, when 95 boys were given it, #1,671 among boys’ names. The 61 births of 2025 are 64% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61 | #2,284 | 35.7 |
| 2024 | 85 | #1,878 | 49.3 |
| 2023 | 68 | #2,128 | 39.8 |
| 2022 | 67 | #2,167 | 38.4 |
| 2021 | 54 | #2,463 | 30.9 |
| 2020 | 70 | #2,024 | 40.6 |
| 2019 | 87 | #1,777 | 48.5 |
| 2018 | 95 | #1,671 | 52.3 |
| 2017 | 66 | #2,090 | 35.7 |
| 2016 | 75 | #1,936 | 39.5 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 74 | #1,955 | 38.6 |
| 2014 | 67 | #2,081 | 34.9 |
| 2013 | 71 | #1,941 | 37.5 |
| 2012 | 51 | #2,447 | 26.9 |
| 2011 | 55 | #2,316 | 29.0 |
| 2010 | 46 | #2,631 | 24.0 |
| 2009 | 52 | #2,450 | 26.2 |
| 2008 | 47 | #2,631 | 23.0 |
| 2007 | 49 | #2,533 | 23.6 |
| 2006 | 39 | #2,881 | 19.0 |
| 2005 | 40 | #2,697 | 20.0 |
| 2004 | 34 | #2,949 | 17.1 |
| 2003 | 40 | #2,541 | 20.2 |
| 2002 | 35 | #2,681 | 18.0 |
| 2001 | 44 | #2,273 | 22.6 |
| 2000 | 29 | #2,987 | 14.8 |
| 1999 | 31 | #2,718 | 16.1 |
| 1998 | 29 | #2,780 | 15.2 |
| 1997 | 28 | #2,746 | 14.9 |
| 1996 | 12 | #4,871 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 22 | #3,095 | 11.6 |
| 1994 | 17 | #3,745 | 8.8 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,693 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 11 | #4,865 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,456 | 8.4 |
| 1990 | 16 | #3,602 | 7.8 |
| 1989 | 11 | #4,522 | 5.5 |
| 1988 | 20 | #2,760 | 10.4 |
| 1987 | 12 | #3,726 | 6.4 |
| 1986 | 11 | #3,879 | 6.0 |
| 1985 | 12 | #3,596 | 6.5 |
| 1984 | 7 | #4,971 | 3.9 |
| 1983 | 10 | #3,882 | 5.6 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,690 | 6.1 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,152 | 5.0 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,493 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 13 | #3,168 | 7.6 |
| 1978 | 5 | #5,771 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,123 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,417 | 4.5 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,464 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Abbas a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Abbas has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Abbas: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Abbas, and how old are they?
1,810 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,843 Americans ever recorded as Abbas. The median Abbas alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 4,261 people named Abbas (11 women and girls, 4,250 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,435 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 40 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 200 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 639 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 933 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Abbas born?
The states with the most babies named Abbas are Michigan, California and Illinois, with 85% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 19 | #445 | 6.3× |
| California | 5 | #2,473 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,281 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,232 | 0.1× |
Where Abbas is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Abbas is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1975 it was given 6.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Abbas with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,072 babies since 1880, Abbas is the most given (89% of them). In 2025 it was given to 61 of their 72 babies (85%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Abbas
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Abbas and names like it
- Compare Abbas and AbasBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAbbas peaked in 2018.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Abbas since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Abbas: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Abbas.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Abbas alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.