Abiathar
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A biblical name meaning 'father of abundance', rarely used in modern times
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Abiathar is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Israel.
- ILIsrael
- MYMalaysia
- NGNigeria
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A biblical name meaning 'father of abundance', rarely used in modern times.
Sources 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
- ILIsrael
- MYMalaysia
- USUnited States
- NGNigeria
- BRBrazil
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Abiathar is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
His banishment represents the end of the priesthood of the House of Eli and the transfer of authority to the Zadokite line.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
Father of abundance; The Father is pre-eminent
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
In English, In the Old Testament, a Hebrew high priest during the reign of King David.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)
- Evyatar ben Eliyahu, Ha-Kohenb. 1042SYnot in their usual nameGaon (c. 1040–1112)
- Abiathar Crescasb. 1500ESastrolger
- Abiathar Babbitb. 1761Shaker
- Eviatar Nevob. 1929ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli academic
- Evyatar Levineb. 1929ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli jurist (1929-1982)
- Evyatar Frieselb. 1930ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli historian
- Eviatar Manorb. 1949ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli diplomat
- Eviatar Mataniab. 1966ILnot in their usual nameDirector at the Prime Minister's Office in Israel
- Eviatar Banaib. 1973ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli singer
- Evyatar Davidb. 2000ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli taken hostage by Hamas during the Re'im music festival massacre
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)
Attested in 3 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 1 | #146 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2017 | 1 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1973 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1999 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1987 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1966 | 1 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 1 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Abiathar mean, and where does it come from?
- A biblical name meaning 'father of abundance', rarely used in modern times. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- Is Abiathar a male or female name?
- Abiathar is a male 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.
- What are other forms of the name Abiathar?
- In the etymology graph, Evyatar and Eviatar are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Abiathar have the most bearers?
- Abiathar is most frequently recorded in Israel.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/abiatharThe 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, “Abiathar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.