Abisai
Abisai was given to 29 boys in 2025, #3,756 among boys’ names; 1,164 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,150 Americans named Abisai and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 9 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Abisai by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Abisai?
#3,756 among boys’ names, 2025
Abisai fell from #3,590 in 2015 to #3,756 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 15.7 to 17.0 per million.
55 babies in 2016, the peak
Abisai peaked in 2016, when 55 babies were given it (30 boys, #3,595 among boys’ names). The 29 births of 2025 are 53% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #3,756 | 17.0 |
| 2024 | 22 | #4,567 | 12.8 |
| 2023 | 24 | #4,340 | 14.0 |
| 2022 | 30 | #3,689 | 17.2 |
| 2021 | 27 | #3,909 | 15.4 |
| 2020 | 30 | #3,568 | 17.4 |
| 2019 | 17 | #5,338 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 32 | #3,442 | 17.6 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,006 | 21.1 |
| 2016 | 30 | #3,595 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #3,590 | 15.7 |
| 2014 | 32 | #3,370 | 16.7 |
| 2013 | 39 | #2,893 | 20.6 |
| 2012 | 43 | #2,771 | 22.7 |
| 2011 | 36 | #3,114 | 19.0 |
| 2010 | 41 | #2,873 | 21.4 |
| 2009 | 35 | #3,223 | 17.6 |
| 2008 | 41 | #2,879 | 20.1 |
| 2007 | 42 | #2,810 | 20.2 |
| 2006 | 46 | #2,577 | 22.4 |
| 2005 | 40 | #2,699 | 20.0 |
| 2004 | 46 | #2,416 | 23.2 |
| 2003 | 29 | #3,184 | 14.7 |
| 2002 | 30 | #3,019 | 15.5 |
| 2001 | 34 | #2,739 | 17.5 |
| 2000 | 22 | #3,636 | 11.2 |
| 1999 | 28 | #2,935 | 14.6 |
| 1998 | 24 | #3,187 | 12.6 |
| 1997 | 16 | #4,056 | 8.5 |
| 1996 | 27 | #2,742 | 14.3 |
| 1995 | 21 | #3,186 | 11.0 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,447 | 5.2 |
| 1993 | 16 | #3,813 | 8.2 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,231 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 16 | #3,629 | 7.9 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,377 | 4.4 |
| 1989 | 14 | #3,804 | 7.0 |
| 1988 | 7 | #5,748 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,233 | 5.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Abisai a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,164 Americans recorded as Abisai, 8% are girls and 92% boys. In 2025 it went to 29 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 Abisai: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Abisai, and how old are they?
1,150 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,164 Americans ever recorded as Abisai. The median Abisai alive today is 16 years old; half are between 9 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 1,135 people named Abisai (117 women and girls, 1,018 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 992 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% above 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 | 134 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 544 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 468 |
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 Abisai born?
The states with the most babies named Abisai are California, Texas and North Carolina, with 98% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 252 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Texas | 169 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| North Carolina | 12 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Colorado | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Abisai is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Abisai is most over-represented in California: since 1987 it was given 1.6 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 Abisai 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 Abisai
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.
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- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Abisai.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Abisai alive today were born 1997-2012.
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