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Worldwide, Avshalom (אבשלום , Avshalom , Авшалом ) is a rare principally masculine, but very seldom girly first name. The given name Avshalom is habitual in Israel, where it is quite a rare predominantly male, but scarcely girly name, and the United States, where it is an extremely rare principally male, but very infrequently girly name. Much less frequently, Avshalom is the last name as well as the forename.
Avshalom is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Absalom , the biblical character; third son of David, 2 Samuel and Absalom Breakspear , the character from Carnival Row.