# Abhimanyu (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/abhimanyu/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Sanskrit |
| Meaning | “abhimanyu” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 307 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 307 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 58, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit अभिमन्यु (abhimanyu, “Abhimanyu”).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 6 | 10,820 |
| 2012 | 7 | 9,724 |
| 2013 | 10 | 7,543 |
| 2014 | 11 | 7,055 |
| 2015 | 15 | 5,750 |
| 2016 | 18 | 5,127 |
| 2017 | 10 | 7,554 |
| 2018 | 15 | 5,772 |
| 2019 | 13 | 6,410 |
| 2020 | 14 | 5,985 |
| 2021 | 14 | 6,033 |
| 2022 | 15 | 5,876 |
| 2023 | 11 | 7,292 |
| 2024 | 12 | 6,838 |
| 2025 | 28 | 3,848 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 3 | 4,647 |
| 2012 | 3 | 4,805 |
| 2013 | 3 | 4,685 |
| 2014 | 7 | 2,690 |
| 2016 | 5 | 3,478 |
| 2017 | 4 | 3,996 |
| 2019 | 4 | 3,937 |
| 2020 | 3 | 4,608 |
| 2021 | 5 | 3,451 |
| 2022 | 7 | 2,755 |
| 2023 | 6 | 3,112 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,119 |
| 2025 | 5 | 3,684 |

## In other languages

- Hindi: अभिमन्यु

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.