Given name

Abhijit

Abhijit is a masculine given name from Sanskrit.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Abhijit comes from Sanskrit.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Sanskrit अभिजित.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1997. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Abhijit through the years

Babies since 1880
47
47 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
2000
7 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
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Abhijit in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1997–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2014. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,391 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.

Abhijit’s family of names

Abhijit may belong to the same name family as ABBHIJIT. This is a tentative spelling connection.

Walk Abhijit’s family in the name graph

Abhijitअभिजित

The ring: spellings.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

People named Abhijit

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

Similar names

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>99% boys

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“a higher love, as of music or art”

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>99% boys

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“a wealthy man”

0Not recently recorded

>99% boys

Sibling ideas

Names that share Abhijit’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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