Abi Forename
9,354th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 109,935 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Ethiopia
Highest density in:
Comoros
Abi Forename Definition:
Ay'-by, my father. The mother of Hezekiah. 2 Kings xviii. 2.
Abi Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ethiopia | 100% | 24,621 | 1:3,962 | 659 |
| Indonesia | 98% | 11,871 | 1:21,731 | 3,016 |
| Syria | - | 11,553 | 1:1,671 | 304 |
| Ivory Coast | 90% | 7,884 | 1:2,927 | 312 |
| Afghanistan | 96% | 7,875 | 1:4,143 | 611 |
| Burkina Faso | 99% | 6,233 | 1:2,949 | 420 |
| India | 68% | 5,640 | 1:215,404 | 21,963 |
| Mali | 98% | 4,473 | 1:3,796 | 400 |
| England | 76% | 3,893 | 1:14,283 | 1,012 |
| Nigeria | 60% | 3,272 | 1:54,268 | 3,846 |
| Ghana | - | 1,854 | 1:14,556 | 1,234 |
| United States | 66% | 1,820 | 1:199,196 | 7,102 |
| Bangladesh | 100% | 1,741 | 1:91,592 | 6,439 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 1,645 | 1:12,644 | 1,825 |
| Egypt | 60% | 1,215 | 1:75,639 | 3,772 |
| Togo | - | 1,071 | 1:6,759 | 1,050 |
| Pakistan | 53% | 864 | 1:224,951 | 7,204 |
| Morocco | 100% | 846 | 1:40,601 | 1,852 |
| Comoros | - | 627 | 1:1,214 | 222 |
| Malaysia | 89% | 618 | 1:49,272 | 4,080 |
| Iran | 100% | 577 | 1:136,043 | 2,973 |
| Taiwan | 93% | 547 | 1:43,455 | 6,817 |
| DR Congo | 62% | 534 | 1:138,254 | 6,751 |
| Niger | 81% | 496 | 1:38,677 | 2,113 |
| Mexico | 83% | 448 | 1:277,108 | 4,209 |
| Australia | - | 399 | 1:34,230 | 1,903 |
| Kuwait | - | 389 | 1:9,731 | 1,171 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 350 | 1:88,036 | 9,509 |
| Canada | 50% | 348 | 1:95,211 | 4,936 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 331 | 1:21,607 | 2,213 |
| Tanzania | 88% | 321 | 1:164,450 | 7,482 |
| Somalia | - | 319 | 1:42,401 | 2,327 |
| Iraq | 100% | 309 | 1:113,326 | 2,600 |
| Philippines | 82% | 307 | 1:345,308 | 12,932 |
| Papua New Guinea | 64% | 295 | 1:27,635 | 2,741 |
| Senegal | 96% | 290 | 1:50,281 | 2,003 |
| Nepal | 64% | 274 | 1:103,968 | 5,685 |
| South Africa | 82% | 254 | 1:214,695 | 13,555 |
| Oman | 100% | 229 | 1:17,942 | 1,582 |
| Azerbaijan | 88% | 178 | 1:54,174 | 3,248 |
| Russia | 65% | 153 | 1:942,704 | 8,294 |
| Jordan | 96% | 148 | 1:59,640 | 1,662 |
| Brazil | 100% | 145 | 1:1,477,491 | 34,317 |
| Benin | 100% | 141 | 1:75,006 | 5,141 |
| Bhutan | 66% | 128 | 1:6,445 | 463 |
| New Zealand | - | 118 | 1:38,441 | 2,326 |
| Wales | 71% | 113 | 1:27,383 | 1,301 |
| Ecuador | - | 112 | 1:158,276 | 3,072 |
| France | 100% | 112 | 1:593,485 | 5,912 |
| Germany | 83% | 111 | 1:870,972 | 7,247 |
| Thailand | 53% | 110 | 1:636,962 | 27,637 |
| Guatemala | 50% | 101 | 1:159,489 | 2,748 |
| Netherlands | 84% | 101 | 1:167,347 | 6,845 |
| Kazakhstan | 100% | 89 | 1:199,403 | 4,473 |
| Argentina | 80% | 77 | 1:555,497 | 3,892 |
| Bahrain | - | 74 | 1:18,225 | 2,605 |
| Palestine | 100% | 74 | 1:61,487 | 1,602 |
| Scotland | 71% | 73 | 1:73,293 | 1,955 |
| Lebanon | 50% | 63 | 1:89,327 | 3,069 |
| Zimbabwe | 56% | 50 | 1:308,476 | 16,320 |
| Honduras | 100% | 44 | 1:200,397 | 4,684 |
| Ireland | - | 43 | 1:107,989 | 2,589 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 43 | 1:702,370 | 16,921 |
| North Macedonia | - | 38 | 1:55,020 | 3,594 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 37 | 1:15,245 | 1,061 |
| Qatar | 100% | 36 | 1:65,822 | 8,074 |
| Liberia | 100% | 33 | 1:133,699 | 5,306 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 32 | 1:63,750 | 6,271 |
| Peru | 86% | 31 | 1:1,025,531 | 13,565 |
| Singapore | 100% | 31 | 1:202,808 | 8,522 |
| Panama | 100% | 29 | 1:134,709 | 5,994 |
| China | - | 27 | 1:50,594,659 | 62,307 |
| Mauritania | 72% | 27 | 1:151,676 | 5,042 |
| Cameroon | 68% | 25 | 1:864,420 | 23,819 |
| Spain | 100% | 25 | 1:1,861,199 | 11,276 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 24 | 1:24,207 | 1,862 |
| Turkey | 80% | 22 | 1:3,536,441 | 18,981 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 21 | 1:64,829 | 5,289 |
| Hong Kong | - | 19 | 1:408,038 | 4,068 |
| Switzerland | 52% | 19 | 1:432,289 | 7,332 |
| Belgium | 50% | 18 | 1:638,336 | 9,306 |
| Japan | 100% | 18 | 1:7,110,336 | 31,011 |
| Albania | 52% | 17 | 1:179,210 | 9,831 |
| Sweden | 71% | 17 | 1:579,877 | 14,075 |
| Botswana | - | 16 | 1:136,528 | 10,720 |
| Chile | 93% | 16 | 1:1,100,450 | 9,633 |
| Costa Rica | 73% | 16 | 1:297,997 | 5,686 |
| Kenya | - | 15 | 1:3,087,141 | 21,962 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 83% | 15 | 1:398,218 | 13,816 |
| Uganda | 58% | 15 | 1:2,730,461 | 31,621 |
| Congo | 50% | 14 | 1:357,800 | 7,134 |
| El Salvador | - | 14 | 1:452,985 | 4,295 |
| Italy | 57% | 13 | 1:4,697,084 | 22,664 |
| Colombia | - | 11 | 1:4,343,539 | 25,849 |
| Angola | 100% | 9 | 1:2,996,290 | 3,522 |
| Somaliland | - | 9 | 1:389,086 | 1,051 |
| Yemen | - | 9 | 1:2,921,861 | 3,970 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 7 | 1:859,762 | 11,907 |
| Uruguay | - | 7 | 1:489,662 | 6,003 |
| Algeria | 50% | 6 | 1:6,362,787 | 10,855 |
| Georgia | 83% | 6 | 1:623,078 | 10,501 |
| Tunisia | 100% | 6 | 1:112,817 | 6,145 |
| Zambia | - | 6 | 1:2,642,466 | 23,928 |
| Northern Ireland | - | 5 | 1:368,629 | 2,296 |
| Brunei | 100% | 5 | 1:83,914 | 1,339 |
| Grenada | 100% | 5 | 1:21,625 | 2,009 |
| Guinea | - | 5 | 1:2,371,729 | 4,683 |
| Norway | 100% | 5 | 1:1,026,466 | 14,100 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 5 | 1:491,752 | 5,628 |
| Armenia | 100% | 4 | 1:729,688 | 7,125 |
| Czechia | 76% | 4 | 1:2,664,040 | 5,608 |
| Gambia | - | 4 | 1:481,649 | 818 |
| Iceland | - | 4 | 1:91,504 | 3,703 |
| Jamaica | - | 4 | 1:720,807 | 13,486 |
| Rwanda | 100% | 4 | 1:2,842,858 | 2,668 |
| South Korea | - | 4 | 1:1,386,105 | 20,690 |
| Ukraine | - | 4 | 1:11,374,977 | 14,813 |
| Uzbekistan | 100% | 4 | 1:7,696,610 | 11,277 |
| Austria | 100% | 3 | 1:2,838,067 | 11,255 |
| Bolivia | - | 3 | 1:3,533,801 | 5,917 |
| Bulgaria | - | 3 | 1:2,330,130 | 16,302 |
| Denmark | - | 3 | 1:1,883,166 | 17,701 |
| Greece | 100% | 3 | 1:3,644,849 | 16,562 |
| Jersey | - | 3 | 1:33,327 | 1,495 |
| Namibia | - | 3 | 1:801,393 | 11,859 |
| Barbados | - | 2 | 1:144,894 | 2,643 |
| Belarus | - | 2 | 1:4,741,192 | 16,466 |
| Belize | 100% | 2 | 1:177,154 | 5,935 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | - | 2 | 1:1,762,229 | 6,852 |
| Cuba | - | 2 | 1:5,753,276 | 9,613 |
| Maldives | - | 2 | 1:216,952 | 3,781 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 2 | 1:25,615 | 3,101 |
| Mauritius | - | 2 | 1:648,892 | 8,630 |
| Montenegro | - | 2 | 1:317,288 | 3,822 |
| Romania | - | 2 | 1:10,025,988 | 47,037 |
| Abkhazia | 100% | 1 | 1:243,422 | 3,525 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 1 | 1:99,395 | 3,544 |
| Cambodia | 100% | 1 | 1:16,273,330 | 74,610 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 1 | 1:61,299 | 2,487 |
| Cyprus | - | 1 | 1:871,076 | 5,368 |
| Djibouti | - | 1 | 1:915,664 | 2,132 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 1 | 1:10,431,270 | 30,761 |
| East Timor | - | 1 | 1:1,218,375 | 811 |
| Fiji | - | 1 | 1:892,378 | 3,968 |
| Finland | - | 1 | 1:5,483,183 | 25,487 |
| Gabon | 100% | 1 | 1:1,883,336 | 4,538 |
| Greenland | - | 1 | 1:56,371 | 1,395 |
| Guernsey | - | 1 | 1:63,331 | 901 |
| Guyana | - | 1 | 1:763,262 | 24,238 |
| Haiti | - | 1 | 1:10,726,953 | 41,696 |
| Hungary | 74% | 1 | 1:9,791,771 | 6,528 |
| Isle of Man | - | 1 | 1:85,023 | 723 |
| Israel | 100% | 1 | 1:8,402,918 | 45,019 |
| Kosovo | - | 1 | 1:1,861,440 | 22,170 |
| Laos | - | 1 | 1:6,586,856 | 1,888 |
| Latvia | - | 1 | 1:2,015,645 | 6,531 |
| Libya | - | 1 | 1:6,221,309 | 3,060 |
| Macau | - | 1 | 1:608,209 | 2,350 |
| Malawi | - | 1 | 1:17,112,310 | 24,110 |
| Malta | - | 1 | 1:429,360 | 3,141 |
| Nauru | 100% | 1 | 1:11,927 | 903 |
| New Caledonia | - | 1 | 1:270,164 | 3,221 |
| Paraguay | - | 1 | 1:7,236,805 | 16,549 |
| Portugal | - | 1 | 1:10,410,866 | 12,786 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 1 | 1:3,550,301 | 10,040 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 100% | 1 | 1:191,997 | 5,295 |
| Serbia | - | 1 | 1:7,145,721 | 10,629 |
| Seychelles | - | 1 | 1:92,670 | 1,891 |
| Slovakia | - | 1 | 1:5,310,063 | 9,949 |
| Sudan | - | 1 | 1:37,806,975 | 10,689 |
| Suriname | - | 1 | 1:552,811 | 5,457 |
| Swaziland | - | 1 | 1:1,300,177 | 3,374 |
| Turkmenistan | 100% | 1 | 1:5,472,870 | 3,925 |
The alternate forms: Äbi (1) are calculated separately.
Abi (56,618) may also be a surname.
Abi Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
Ay'-by, my father. The mother of Hezekiah. 2 Kings xviii. 2.
— The Proper Names of The Bible (1855) by John Farrar
Meaning: my father (or fatherly).
— A Dictionary of the Proper Names of the Old and New Testament (1909) by James Beaumont Jackson
A Hebrew name, meaning: Father.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
Abi Forename Popularity
Abi Demographics
Abi Political Affiliation
in United States
Sample size: 205 (2014)
United States
Average
Phonetically Similar Names
Abi Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Abi in the Russian language | ||
| Аби | abi | - |
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