boys:
1.7k births since 1975
#3006 (34th percentile)
overall:
1.7k births since 1975
#6053 (22nd percentile)
The name Abbas is the #6,053 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,697 recorded births since 1975. This represents the 21.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 21.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,006 (34.4% percentile) for all time with 1,697 births since 1975.
Abbas first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1975 (first recorded for boys in 1975).
For boys, Abbas reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 9.9% percentile (ranked #823) with 49 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 49 births per million (ranked 9.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Abbas ranks #848 for boys (6.9% percentile) with 37 births per million, which is 76.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Abbas".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Abbas. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 32.1% confident that Abbas is pronounced as A-buhs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-BAHS, at 32.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like AE1 B AH0 S) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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