Avishag
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Hebrew; ‘my father is a wanderer’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Avishag is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 2.1M(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 5.4M
- USUnited States≈1 in 9.3Mfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Avishag itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Israel (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 41 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 56K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,800 named אבישג, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled אבישג in IL Israel.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Hebrew; ‘my father is a wanderer’
Cited for this meaning 1
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Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Avishag counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | #728 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | listed | אבישג | 40 |
| US United States | — | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 9.3M | — | Avishag | 41 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Avishag | 4 |
| PL Poland | — | 18 | 1 in 2.1M | 18 | — | 1 |
| MX Mexico | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 28M | — | Avishag | 8 |
| SE Sweden | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | — | Avishag | 5 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 2 | 1 in 5.4M | 2 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); MVČR — living population register 2017. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Avishag is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, weibl. Vom., neuhebräische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Jewish: modern Hebrew form of ABISHAG .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Avishag Zahavib. 1922ILIsraeli biologist
- Avishag Rabinerb. 1971ILIsraeli actress
- Avishag Turekb. 1975ILIsraeli swimmer
- Avishag Amit-Shapirab. 1986ILIsraeli poet
- Avishag Sembergb. 2001ILIsraeli taekwondo athlete
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 18 | #4,518 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 18 | #4,519 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #43,858 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Avishag mean, and where does it come from?
- Hebrew; ‘my father is a wanderer’ Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- What are other forms of the name Avishag?
- In the etymology graph, Abishag is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Is Avishag a male or female name?
- Avishag is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Avishag have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.8 thousand people named אבישג in Israel, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Avishag?
- In Poland, the national register counted 18 people named Avishag in 2026, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
- How common is Avishag compared with other names?
- In Israel, Avishag is the 728th most common given name of 107,303 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Avishag?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/avishagThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Avishag” — the 728th most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.