Abas
Abas is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with this name include:Abas (sophist), an ancient Greek sophist and rhetorician Abas, the ancient writer of a work entitled Troia from which Maurus Servius Honoratus has preserved a fragment Abas I of Armenia (?–953), king of Armenia from 928 to 953 Abas Arslanagić, Bosnian handball player Abas Basir, Afghan academic and politician Abas…
Meaning & Origin of Abas
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Abas is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with this name include:Abas (sophist), an ancient Greek sophist and rhetorician Abas, the ancient writer of a work entitled Troia from which Maurus Servius Honoratus has preserved a fragment Abas I of Armenia (?–953), king of Armenia from 928 to 953 Abas Arslanagić, Bosnian handball player Abas Basir, Afghan academic and politician Abas…
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The Story of Abas
The earliest SSA record of Abas as a baby boy name dates back to 2001, when 9 babies received it. 2005 was its biggest year on record, with 10 newborns named Abas — #7,096 in the national rankings. About 39% of every Abas on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. Abas last appeared in the published SSA data in 2023, with 9 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 109 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 2000s to the 2020s.
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About the name Abas
Abas is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 2001 and has accumulated 109 births in the dataset. Abas's peak popularity came in 2005 when it ranked #7,096. Use the chart and map above to compare Abas's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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