Abir
Abir was given to 30 boys in 2025, #3,657 among boys’ names; 780 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Abir by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Abir mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Abir is “a male given name from Bengali.”
Transliteration of Bengali আবির (abir).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Abir?
#3,657 among boys’ names, 2025
Abir rose from #4,079 in 2015 to #3,657 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 13.0 to 17.6 per million.
66 babies in 2021, the peak
Abir peaked in 2021, when 66 boys were given it, #2,156 among boys’ names. The 30 births of 2025 are 45% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 30 | #3,657 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 34 | #3,392 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 38 | #3,177 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 48 | #2,715 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 66 | #2,156 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 51 | #2,505 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 57 | #2,364 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 36 | #3,169 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 37 | #3,124 | |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,246 | 37 | #3,110 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 25 | #4,079 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 25 | #4,014 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 23 | #4,179 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 20 | #4,683 | |
| 2011 | 6 | #14,828 | 17 | #5,199 |
| 2010 | under 5 | 13 | #6,355 | |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,312 | 10 | #7,690 |
| 2008 | under 5 | 12 | #6,761 | |
| 2007 | 7 | #13,933 | 13 | #6,265 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,610 | 10 | #7,424 |
| 2005 | under 5 | 6 | #10,153 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 7 | #8,926 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 8 | #7,834 | |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,451 | 10 | #6,520 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,061 | 7 | #8,343 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,037 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 7 | #7,871 | |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,119 | 8 | #6,840 |
| 1997 | under 5 | 13 | #4,665 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 9 | #5,980 | |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,784 | 6 | #7,793 |
| 1993 | 6 | #11,777 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,316 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,507 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,242 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,360 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,823 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Abir a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 780 Americans recorded as Abir, 12% are girls and 88% boys. In 2025 it went to 30 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Abir: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Abir, and how old are they?
An estimated 772 Americans named Abir and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,514 people named Abir (855 women and girls, 659 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 521 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.9 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.
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 Abir born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 9 | #707 | 1.3× |
| California | 7 | #2,000 | 1.3× |
Where Abir is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Abir is most over-represented in California: since 1987 it was given 1.3 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 Abir 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,899 babies since 1880, Abir is the second most given (41% of them). In 2025 it was given to 30 of their 73 babies (41%), again the second 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 Abir
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 Abir and names like it
- Compare Abir and AbrarBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAbir peaked in 2021.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Abir since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Abir.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Abir alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.