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Abijah

Mostly boys · Hebrew

Abijah is a name of Hebrew origin. In 2025 it ranked 9,710th for boys in the US (7 babies).

What does Abijah mean?

Hebrew

A male or female given name from Hebrew.

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Is Abijah a girl's or a boy's name?

In recent years, Abijah has been given to girls and boys, mostly boys. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls and 7 boys in the US.

How popular is Abijah in the US?

Rank in 2025
#9,710among boys
Babies in 2025
7about 1 in 240,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 7 boys in the US were named Abijah, making it the 9,710th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,062nd. Its busiest year was 2013, with 18 boys. It first appears in the records in 1977. 5 girls were also named Abijah in 2025 (14,937th for girls).

Half of all the boys named Abijah in the US since 1880 were born between 2003 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.

1977Busiest: 18 in 20132025
Abijah in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20257#9,710
202412#6,827
20237#9,757
202214#6,141
202111#7,084
20209#8,062
201915#5,808
20187#9,664
201712#6,681
201617#5,314
201510#7,486
201417#5,248
201318#4,978
20126#10,763
20118#8,760
201010#7,585
200912#6,798
200811#7,182
200716#5,431
200616#5,299
20057#9,108
200412#6,132
20039#7,238
20028#7,636
20017#8,332
200014#5,034
19998#7,132
199811#5,460
19970–
19960–
19955#8,861
19945#8,794
19930–
19920–
19910–
19900–
19895#7,898
19880–
19870–
19865#6,715
19850–
19845#6,311
19830–
19820–
19810–
19806#5,523
19790–
19780–
19775#5,843

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