Abhinav
Abhinav was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,196 among boys’ names; 1,966 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,940 Americans named Abhinav and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 13 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Abhinav by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Abhinav mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Abhinav is “a male given name from Sanskrit.”
Borrowed from Sanskrit अभिनव (abhinava).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Abhinav?
#7,196 among boys’ names, 2025
Abhinav fell from #2,299 in 2015 to #7,196 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 29.7 to 6.4 per million.
133 babies in 2008, the peak
Abhinav peaked in 2008, when 133 boys were given it, #1,303 among boys’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,196 | 6.4 |
| 2024 | 17 | #5,441 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 21 | #4,739 | 12.3 |
| 2022 | 27 | #3,993 | 15.5 |
| 2021 | 21 | #4,625 | 12.0 |
| 2020 | 33 | #3,346 | 19.1 |
| 2019 | 50 | #2,581 | 27.9 |
| 2018 | 55 | #2,384 | 30.3 |
| 2017 | 44 | #2,755 | 23.8 |
| 2016 | 67 | #2,086 | 35.3 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 57 | #2,299 | 29.7 |
| 2014 | 67 | #2,082 | 34.9 |
| 2013 | 79 | #1,810 | 41.8 |
| 2012 | 86 | #1,741 | 45.3 |
| 2011 | 106 | #1,510 | 55.8 |
| 2010 | 114 | #1,447 | 59.4 |
| 2009 | 118 | #1,425 | 59.5 |
| 2008 | 133 | #1,303 | 65.2 |
| 2007 | 109 | #1,464 | 52.5 |
| 2006 | 112 | #1,408 | 54.5 |
| 2005 | 107 | #1,389 | 53.6 |
| 2004 | 91 | #1,482 | 45.8 |
| 2003 | 85 | #1,510 | 43.0 |
| 2002 | 80 | #1,540 | 41.2 |
| 2001 | 61 | #1,812 | 31.4 |
| 2000 | 47 | #2,132 | 23.9 |
| 1999 | 37 | #2,396 | 19.3 |
| 1998 | 29 | #2,782 | 15.2 |
| 1997 | 31 | #2,543 | 16.4 |
| 1996 | 13 | #4,607 | 6.9 |
| 1995 | 16 | #3,850 | 8.4 |
| 1994 | 12 | #4,797 | 6.2 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,561 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,091 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 8 | #5,819 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Abhinav a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Abhinav has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Abhinav: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Abhinav, and how old are they?
1,940 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,966 Americans ever recorded as Abhinav. The median Abhinav alive today is 18 years old; half are between 13 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 3,387 people named Abhinav (7 women and girls, 3,380 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,826 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 68 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,330 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 545 |
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 Abhinav born?
The states with the most babies named Abhinav are California, Texas and New Jersey, with 68% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 372 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Texas | 162 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 151 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| Illinois | 69 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 56 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 56 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 27 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 22 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 18 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Maryland | 18 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Abhinav is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Abhinav is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1990 it was given 2.8 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 Abhinav with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Abhinav
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 Abhinav and names like it
- Compare Abhinav and BraydonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAbhinav peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Abhinav since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Abhinav: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Abhinav.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Abhinav alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.