Abed

Where Abed comes from

From Arabic عَابِد (ʕābid, “servant, worshipper”)
— Wiktionary's entry for Abed
  • Arabic
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1979
    First appearance
    #4,842 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1983
    Peak, #4,499
    8 babies named Abed — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1985
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Arabic.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.