Abbas

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Abbas: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Abbas: Recorded since 1955, it reached #365 in 2015, and it stood at #668 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
72times a registrar ranked it
71years from first to last
#365highest recorded position
15groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2025

How to read this chart

A rank is a position in one registrar's list for one year.
Ranks from different countries are separate scales, so compare shapes, not numbers.
A rise in rank can be a small change in births, especially far down a list.

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#489
1997	#578
1998	#445
1999	#528
2000	#415
2001	#602
2002	#417
2003	#473
2004	#487
2005	#691
2006	#504
2007	#782
2008	#684
2009	#524
2010	#660
2011	#701
2012	#821
2013	#666
2014	#597
2015	#671
2016	#774
2017	#635
2018	#721
2019	#753
2020	#706
2021	#985
2022	#600
2023	#679
2024	#685
2025	#668

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 41 of the 69 years from 1955 to 2023.

In 2024: #685 among boys in England and Wales, #785 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1955–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Year-by-year storyFirst recorded, most recent, each country and each decade

Popularity journey

First recorded1955
First recorded at #376 among boys in Norway in 1955 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1955–2023
Highest recorded position: #365 among boys in Norway, in 2015 (recorded 1955–2023).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #668 among boys in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Boys

Abbas appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 41 years beginning in 1955, and has registered 238 births with the name.

Abbas across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Abbas's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#376 (1955)	#365 (2015)	#451 (2023)	41 of 69	238 (1955–2023)	10 (1991)
England and Wales · Boys	#489 (1996)	#415 (2000)	#668 (2025)	30 of 30	1,409 (1996–2025)	66 (2009)

Abbas by decade in Norway · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Abbas in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1950s	14	3 of 10	5
1960s	29	5 of 10	6
1970s	35	7 of 10	5
1980s	42	7 of 10	6
1990sbusiest	47	7 of 10	7
2000s	21	4 of 10	5
2010s	41	6 of 10	7
2020s	9	2 of 10	5

Across Norway · Boys, the 1990s were its busiest decade — the 7 years of it this list covers, averaging 7 births a year.

See the names Norway has recorded the most births with →

Abbas appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Full data tableEvery published rank and count

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1955 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #365 in Norway in 2015.

Abbas's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2025	England and Wales	male	#668	54	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#685	53	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#679	51	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#600	62	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#985	30	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#706	47	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#753	43	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#721	47	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#635	56	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#774	42	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#671	51	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#597	59	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#666	50	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#821	38	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#701	45	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#660	48	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#524	66	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#684	43	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#782	34	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#504	60	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#691	37	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#487	54	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#473	51	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#417	54	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#602	31	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#415	52	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#528	37	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#445	47	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#578	30	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#489	37	High	Verified
2023	Norway	male	#451	5	High	Verified
2022	Norway	male	#457	4	High	Verified
2018	Norway	male	#499	4	High	Verified
2015	Norway	male	#365	10	High	Verified
2014	Norway	male	#483	5	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#424	7	High	Verified
2012	Norway	male	#402	8	High	Verified
2011	Norway	male	#422	7	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#505	5	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#493	5	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#540	4	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#410	7	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#537	4	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#539	4	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#381	9	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#507	5	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#413	8	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#444	7	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#382	10	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#608	4	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#553	5	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#487	7	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#432	9	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#518	6	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#481	7	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#614	4	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#553	5	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#544	5	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#580	4	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#547	5	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#551	5	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#538	5	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#482	6	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#394	8	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#429	6	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#414	6	High	Verified
1961	Norway	male	#454	4	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#429	5	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#405	5	High	Verified
1957	Norway	male	#420	4	High	Verified
1955	Norway	male	#376	5	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#785	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Where Abbas is officially recorded

3 official registrars have recorded Abbas, between 1955 and 2025, in 56 of those 71 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Each mark is a year the registrar recorded the name; the diamond is that registrar's highest position. Gaps can mean a year was not published, not that the name went unused.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Norway	1955–2023	41	#365 in 2015
England and Wales	1996–2025	30	#415 in 2000
Republic of Ireland	2024	1	#785 in 2024

Its high point came 24 years earlier in England and Wales (2000) than in Republic of Ireland (2024).

No registrar recorded it for 3 years after 1966; it appears again in 1970.

Names measured beside itNeighbours, comparisons, related names and shared trajectories

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1955 and 2025, ranked in 56 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #365, first reached in 2015.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 66 births, registered in England and Wales in 2009.

Its record falls into 14 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 69 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Abaigh · #413, 13y
Aban · #2954, 14y
Abbey · #37, 30y
Abbi · #170, 23y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Bushra · #363, 54y
Ammar · #362, 52y
Kamal · #360, 54y
Mariana · #359, 59y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Farhad · #364, 47y
Bushra · #363, 54y
Mehdi · #368, 57y
Dragan · #370, 26y

Abbas was ranked #365 in Norway · Boys in 2015. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Torben#361
Torstein#362
Yahya#363
Ådne#364
Abdul#366
Bernhard#367
Karim#368
Maksymilian#369

Abbas and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,576 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Abbas without appearing here.

Abbas moved ahead of

Colin
In 2021 they stood at #985 and #888 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #600 and #1104.
Keith
In 2001 they stood at #602 and #576 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #417 and #781.
Ciaran
In 2021 they stood at #985 and #871 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #600 and #925.
Murray
In 2007 they stood at #782 and #764 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #684 and #987.

Moved ahead of Abbas

Oisin
In 2020 they stood at #706 and #766 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #985 and #433.
Joakim
In 1971 they stood at #482 and #492 in Norway · Boys; by 1972 that had become #538 and #214.
Sondre
In 1971 they stood at #482 and #510 in Norway · Boys; by 1972 that had become #538 and #263.
Cooper
In 2006 they stood at #504 and #677 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #782 and #509.

Moved the opposite way to Abbas

Isak
Between 1998 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Abbas went from #445 to #668 while Isak went from #2419 to #1307.

Moved the same way as Abbas

Ronald
Between 1955 and 1999 in Norway · Boys, Abbas went from #376 to #537 and Ronald from #170 to #571.
Brett
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Abbas went from #489 to #685 and Brett from #159 to #4270.
Courtney
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Abbas went from #489 to #685 and Courtney from #247 to #4270.
Erin
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Abbas went from #489 to #685 and Erin from #2863 to #4270.

What is known about Abbas

How to read this

How often it is registered: Official record; 3 official registrars, 1955–2025.
Meaning: Not established; Not researched yet.
Origin: Not established; Not researched yet.
Pronunciation: Not established; Not recorded yet.

A claim marked not established does not mean the name lacks a meaning or is not widely used — only that Namewise has not sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1955 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #365 in Norway in 2015. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Abbas

Abbas at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Abbas across 2 official records

Abbas by decade in Norway · Boys

Abbas appears in

Popularity data

Where Abbas is officially recorded

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1950s

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Abbas at a glance

Abbas across 2 official records

Abbas by decade in Norway · Boys

Abbas appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Abbas

Abbas and the names beside it

Abbas moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Abbas

Moved the opposite way to Abbas

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