Abishai
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A biblical name meaning 'father of a gift', symbolizing loyalty and warrior strength (Biblical Names Compiled Database)
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/ɑɓiʃai/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Abishai is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 94K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M
- CACanada≈1 in 31M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- 1 in 94K (inferred from the name graph)
≈690 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Abishai
- Swahili:/ɑɓiʃai/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Spanish:/aβisai/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A biblical name meaning 'father of a gift', symbolizing loyalty and warrior strength.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Where in the world
(measured from records)Abishai 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 99K | — | Abishai | 6 |
| US United States | 292 | 1 in 1.1M | 233 | Abishai | 68 |
| IN India | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 6.2M | listed | Abishai | 17 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Abishai | 8 |
| ZM Zambia | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 207K | — | Abishai | 3 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 910K | — | Abishai | 7 |
| GY Guyana | 8 | 1 in 94K | 8 | — | 1 |
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; the in-kaggle-names-gender register; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)Abishai 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.
In English, Abishalom [Absalom]
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Father of a gift
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
In English, Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Mi padre es un regalo
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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.
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Abishai?
- It depends on the language: in Swahili /ɑɓiʃai/; in Spanish /aβisai/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Abishai mean, and where does it come from?
- A biblical name meaning 'father of a gift', symbolizing loyalty and warrior strength. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- What are other forms of the name Abishai?
- In the etymology graph, Abisai and Avishai are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Abishai a male or female name?
- Abishai is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- Which countries have the most people named Abishai?
- Mondonomo estimates about 693 people named Abishai in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled abishai. After it come United States, India, Nigeria and Zambia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Abishai most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Abishai is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 94 thousand people — even though Tanzania holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Abishai?
- In the United States, the national register counted 292 people named Abishai in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/abishaiThe 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, “Abishai”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.