girls:
97 births since 1987
#5619 (2nd percentile)
boys:
619 births since 1995
#3967 (13th percentile)
overall:
716 births since 1987
#7023 (9th percentile)
The name Abir is the #7,023 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 716 recorded births since 1987. This represents the 9.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 9.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,967 (13.4% percentile) for all time with 619 births since 1995. For girls, it ranks #5,619 (1.7% percentile) for all time with 97 births since 1987.
Abir first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1987 (1987 for girls and 1995 for boys). Birth data for Abir is available in 35 out of the 37 years between 1987 and 2023 (28 years for boys and 16 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Abir has been given predominantly to boys, with 86.5% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Abir were boys. Interestingly, until around 1997, the name was more popular for girls (73.7% girls from 1987 to 1996), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (91.7% boys from 1997 to 2023).
For boys, Abir reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 6.6% percentile (ranked #869) with 35 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 35 births per million (ranked 6.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2005, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Abir ranks #878 for boys (3.6% percentile) with 21 births per million, which is 58.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Abir reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #821) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Abir".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Abir. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 65.7% confident that Abir is pronounced as uh-BIHR, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-BEAR, at 25.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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