Absalom
Below 5 births
About Absalom
Absalom, because of its biblical and literary associations, just might appeal to the daring namegiver.
In the Old Testament, Absalom was the handsome, favored but rebellious son of King David. In literature, Absalom appears in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, as the repeated title of a Faulkner novel--which refers to the biblical personage rather than the name of a character-- in the novel Cry, the Beloved Country and, on a more trivial note, as the name of the caterpillar in the Tim Burton version of "Alice in Wonderland."
The growing-in-popularity Axel is the Scandinavian form of the name.
Pronounced AB-suh-lom.
As of October 2026, Absalom ranked #7735 in US births in 2024 SSA, peaked at #4191 in 1974.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
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Absalom on lists
Famous Absaloms
- Absalom
son of King David by Maakah
- Absalom Willis Robertson
US Senator from Virginia
- Absalom Baird
Union army general in the American Civil War
- Absalom Jones
American abolitionist and clergyman
- Absalom Watkin
English social reformer
Absalom in pop culture
- Absalom Kumalo
character in Cry, the Beloved Country
- "Absalom
Absalom!", novel by William Faulkner
- "Absalom and Achitophel
" satirical poem by John Dryden
- Absolem
the caterpillar in Tim Burton's 2010 'Alice in Wonderland' film