Abed

Last seen for boys in 2024 at #8,987

Peak · boys
1983 · 8 births
Debut · boys
7 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
219
since 1979

Abed over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Abed has never cracked the top 4,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201997peak #4,499, 1983boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirths
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2024#8,9878
2023#12,2395
2022#10,8636
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2019#10,8036
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2016#10,7446
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2013#12,1365
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2009#6,80212
2008#11,0376
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2006#6,90411
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2003#7,8318
2002#6,52210
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2000#5,92011
1999#9,9125
1998#9,6315
1997#6,6188
1996#5,9829
1995#4,50813
1994#6,9687
1993#5,00211
1992#7,4226
1991#6,5197
1990#8,1175
1989#5,6158
1988#6,4266
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1986#5,3327
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1984#5,5616
1983#4,4998
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1979#4,8427
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First appearance
1979

The first year at least five boys were named Abed! It came in at #4,842, and was given to 7 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1981–1982, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Abed is popular in 1997

No state had 5 or more boys named Abed in 1997, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Abed
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
Rise & fade · boys
4 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1979
  • Peaked 1983 at #4,499 (8 births)
  • Births halved by 1985, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 146,439
  • Highest: 1 in 146,439 boys born in 1995 were named Abed (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 215,361 boys born in 2024 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #4,499 in 1983, was only 1 in 224,071 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1990s
  • 34.7% of all boys named Abed (76) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s7#4,842 (1979)#4,842
1980s42#4,499 (1983)#5,396
1990s76#4,508 (1995)#7,068
2000s58#5,920 (2000)#7,503
2010s17#10,744 (2016)#11,228
2020s19#8,987 (2024)#10,696

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.

Abed in 1997

boys
#6,618
8 births · 1 in 235,643 boys

Top boys' names in 1997

  1. #1Michael37,562
  2. #2Jacob34,163
  3. #3Matthew31,517
  4. #4Christopher29,108
  5. #5Joshua28,289
  6. #6Nicholas27,258
  7. #7Andrew25,208
  8. #8Brandon25,197
  9. #9Austin25,118
  10. #10Tyler24,879
  11. #6,618Abed8
More about 1997

boys

1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 235,643 of them was named Abed, which outranked 38.8% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Abed
  1. #6,100Zequan9
  2. #6,100Zeshan9
  3. #6,100Zyan9
  4. #6,618Abed8
  5. #6,618Abanoub8
  6. #6,618Abdalla8
  7. #6,618Abhay8
  8. #7,281Aadil7
  9. #7,281Aaronjames7
  10. #7,281Abdalrahman7

Tied with 662 names at #6,618; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1996
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,420Jaret#2,145 → #725
  2. ↑ 712Kobe#1,265 → #553
  3. ↑ 580Ronaldo#1,465 → #885
  4. ↑ 420Jarett#1,334 → #914
  5. ↑ 416Gianni#1,093 → #677
Fallers
  1. ↓ 562Shaquille#662 → #1,224
  2. ↓ 373Dalvin#977 → #1,350
  3. ↓ 355Montel#990 → #1,345
  4. ↓ 328Codie#884 → #1,212
  5. ↓ 328Jair#884 → #1,212

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1997 →