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Abiel vs Abisai

American parents have registered 1,645 Abiels since 1880, against 1,164 Abisais. Abiel is still ahead, with 97 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Abiel against Abisai, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Abiel Abisai

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 53 years in which either name was published, Abiel for 41 years and Abisai for 12 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Abiel Abisai
Total US births 1,6451,164
Most in one year 11955
Babies in 2025 9729
Estimated living today 1,6001,100
Median age today 1215
Peak year 20242004
Best rank 1,503rd boys2,419th boys
Rank in 2025 1,688th3,757th
First recorded 19711987
Girls / boys 28 / 1,61790 / 1,074

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Abisais alive today are over 15; half the Abiels are over 12. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Abiel and Abisai.