Abu is a first name for boys.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Abu in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Abu in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Abu by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Abu ranks at #6,976. That means there are 6,975 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Abu.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Abu. Boys named Abu have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 2,894 Abu ranked higher than ever in 1973. By comparison, there have been 97 years in which the first name Abu has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 1994. In general, parents name their sons Abu only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Abu was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Abu continues to be a precious jewel: 10 newborns were named Abu that year, ranking #6,627 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Abu, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
If you ever wanted to meet a boy or man named Abu, you have limited options – because boys with this beautiful name are currently only living in . However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Abu living in one state or another. (If your name is Abu and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Which means – if you put this number in relation to the population of the USA – only one in 364,746 boys and men would turn around if you called out the name Abu. So if your name is Abu, it’s very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Abu already makes you quite special.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is a very popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 9.0% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter J is more common for boys' names.
With only three letters, the name Abu is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 9.0% of all boys' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the boys' names that start with an A, Anthony is the most common.
If your name is Abu and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Abu, you can simply say:
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Butterfly
Unicorn
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Abu
Abu
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
B
U
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
B
U
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Abu sounds like this:
