Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Sanskrit अभिषेक (abhiṣeká); its root is Proto-Indo-European *seykʷ-.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1981. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Abhishek through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 758
- 758 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2000
- 63 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 boys is 5 in 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 63 in 2000. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 5,747 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.
Abhishek’s family of names
In English usage, Abhishek has a diminutive in ABHI. In Urdu usage, Abhishek has a related form in ابھیشیک.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Abhishek
- Abhishek BachchanIndian actor and film producer (Born 1976)
- Abhishek NainIndian field hockey playerborn 1999
- Abhishek KapoorIndian film directorborn 1971
- Abhishek YadavIndian footballerborn 1980
- Abhishek ChaubeyIndian film director, writer and screenwriterborn 1977
- Abhishek VermaIndian archerborn 1989
- Abhishek NayarIndian cricketerborn 1983
- Abhishek ChatterjeeIndian actor1963–2022
- Abhishek BanerjeeIndian politicianborn 1987
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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