Abdel
#6,143 for boys in 2025, 14 births
- Peak · boys
- 2017 · 44 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 829since 1965
Abdel over time
Rank among boys' names. Abdel has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,143 | 14 |
| 2024 | #4,321 | 24 |
| 2023 | #4,742 | 21 |
| 2022 | #3,995 | 27 |
| 2021 | #3,021 | 40 |
| 2020 | #3,074 | 37 |
| 2019 | #3,103 | 38 |
| 2018 | #2,796 | 43 |
| 2017 | #2,755 | 44 |
| 2016 | #4,943 | 19 |
| 2015 | #5,289 | 17 |
| 2014 | #8,130 | 9 |
| 2013 | #4,804 | 19 |
| 2012 | #6,001 | 14 |
| 2011 | #4,659 | 20 |
| 2010 | #4,678 | 20 |
| 2009 | #5,554 | 16 |
| 2008 | #3,921 | 26 |
| 2007 | #4,640 | 20 |
| 2006 | #7,998 | 9 |
| 2005 | #4,464 | 19 |
| 2004 | #5,492 | 14 |
| 2003 | #5,558 | 13 |
| 2002 | #4,188 | 19 |
| 2001 | #4,302 | 18 |
| 2000 | #3,764 | 21 |
| 1999 | #5,317 | 12 |
| 1998 | #4,197 | 16 |
| 1997 | #3,877 | 17 |
| 1996 | #6,496 | 8 |
| 1995 | #6,407 | 8 |
| 1994 | #6,372 | 8 |
| 1993 | #5,360 | 10 |
| 1992 | #4,564 | 12 |
| 1991 | #4,231 | 13 |
| 1990 | #3,309 | 18 |
| 1989 | #5,615 | 8 |
| 1988 | #3,203 | 16 |
| 1987 | — | |
| 1986 | #4,853 | 8 |
| 1985 | #5,785 | 6 |
| 1984 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #4,907 | 7 |
| 1982 | #3,966 | 10 |
| 1981 | #4,961 | 7 |
| 1980 | #4,495 | 8 |
| 1979 | #3,569 | 11 |
| 1978 | #5,059 | 6 |
| 1977 | #5,123 | 6 |
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| 1975 | #5,464 | 5 |
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| 1971 | #4,907 | 5 |
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| 1968 | #3,107 | 8 |
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| 1966 | #3,948 | 5 |
| 1965 | #3,930 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Abdel! It came in at #3,930, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1965–1967, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Abdel is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Florida#1,431 · 1 in 13,251
- Texas#2,004 · 1 in 24,446
Best ever in a state: #868 in Arizona, 2017.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Florida | #1,431 | 7 | 1 in 13,251 |
| Texas | #2,004 | 7 | 1 in 24,446 |
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See more about Abdel
- 1,822 spots since 2024 (#4,321 → #6,143)
- 3,069 spots since 2020 (#3,074 → #6,143)
- 854 spots since 2015 (#5,289 → #6,143)
- Debuted 1965
- Peaked 2017 at #2,755 (44 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 42,067 boys born in 2017 were named Abdel (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 122,005 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 29.3% of all boys named Abdel (243) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 18 | #3,107 (1968) | #3,662 |
| 1970s | 33 | #3,569 (1979) | #4,824 |
| 1980s | 75 | #3,203 (1988) | #4,900 |
| 1990s | 122 | #3,309 (1990) | #5,013 |
| 2000s | 175 | #3,764 (2000) | #4,988 |
| 2010s | 243 | #2,755 (2017) | #4,716 |
| 2020s | 163 | #3,021 (2021) | #4,216 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Abdel in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
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1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 43,737 of them was named Abdel, which outranked 78.6% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,972Yahia41
- #2,972Yannis41
- #2,972Zenith41
- #3,021Abdel40
- #3,021Ameir40
- #3,021Arlan40
- #3,021Armen40
- #3,074Aayansh39
- #3,074Anay39
- #3,074Armand39
Tied with 52 names at #3,021; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.