Given name
Abha
“one who shines; a lustrous beauty”
Abha is used as a given name. One Indian interpretation is “one who shines; a lustrous beauty.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Indian interpretation is “one who shines; a lustrous beauty.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Indian.
How it developed
From Sanskrit आभा (“lustre, brilliance, shine”); its root is Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1980. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Abha through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 57
- 0 boys · 57 girls
- Most popular year
- 2016
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 10 in 2016. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 618 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Abha’s family of names
Abha has a related form in Aabha. Abha has a related form in Abhah. In English usage, Abha has a conventional equivalent in the Hindi form आभा.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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