girls:
26 births since 2012
#5690 (0th percentile)
boys:
292 births since 1995
#4294 (6th percentile)
overall:
318 births since 1995
#7421 (4th percentile)
The name Abishai is the #7,421 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 318 recorded births since 1995. This represents the 4.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,294 (6.3% percentile) for all time with 292 births since 1995. For girls, it ranks #5,690 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 26 births since 2012.
Abishai first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1995 (1995 for boys and 2012 for girls). Birth data for Abishai is available in 24 out of the 29 years between 1995 and 2023 (24 years for boys and 3 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 Abishai has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 91.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Abishai reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #904) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Abishai ranks #893 for boys (2.0% percentile) with 13 births per million, which is 94.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Abishai reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #930) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2015.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Abishai".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Abishai. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 40.0% confident that Abishai is pronounced as A-bih-shai, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-BIH-shai, at 10.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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