Abshir
given name · Latin script
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male
- Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes
- Norway (SSB): listed as male
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: SSA, 2023
/aɓʃiɾ/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Abshir is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ethiopia than in any other country. In Somalia it is the 40th most common given name. Recorded meaning: see Upsher .
- FIFinland1 in 66K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 226K
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 550K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ethiopia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 86 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Somalia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)see Upsher .
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Abshir 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ET Ethiopia | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Abshir | 10 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Abshir | 19 |
| SO Somalia | #40 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | 51 | Abshir | 25 |
| SE Sweden | — | 523 | 1 in 20K | 523 | Abshir | 18 |
| US United States | — | 318 | 1 in 1M | 542 | Abshir | 86 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 59K | 174 | Abshir | 17 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Puntland PEC/TPEC local-council candidate lists. 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 523 | #2,686 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 316 | #28,312 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 157 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 156 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 155 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 147 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 142 | #6,074 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 141 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 137 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 127 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 112 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 97 | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Abshir have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.5 thousand people named Abshir in Ethiopia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled abshir.
- How do you pronounce Abshir?
- In Swahili /aɓʃiɾ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Abshir a male or female name?
- Abshir is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male; Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes; Norway (SSB): listed as male. We don't publish a percentage split.
- What does the name Abshir mean?
- Recorded meaning: see Upsher .
- How common is the name Abshir?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 523 people named Abshir, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
- How common is Abshir compared with other names?
- In Somalia, Abshir is the 40th most common given name of 718 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Abshir?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/abshirThe 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, “Abshir” — the 40th most common given name in Somalia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.