Given name
Avshalom
“my Father is peace”
Avshalom is used as a given name. One Hebrew interpretation is “my Father is peace.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hebrew interpretation is “my Father is peace.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hebrew.
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. Avshalom is a variant of Absalom. The history of Absalom gives this family its wider story. Absalom appears in biblical tradition, giving it a longstanding religious and cultural context.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Avshalom through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1981
- 5 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 1981. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Avshalom’s family of names
Avshalom has a related form in Absalom. Avshalom has a related form in Avsalom.
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.
People named Avshalom
- Avshalom FeinbergJewish British spy (1889–1917)
- Avshalom KorIsraeli linguistborn 1950
- Avshalom ElitzurIsraeli physicist and philosopher (born 1957)
- Avshalom PollakIsraeli actorborn 1970
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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