Abdel

#6,143 for boys in 2025, 14 births

Peak · boys
2017 · 44 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
829
since 1965

Abdel over time

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Rank among boys' names. Abdel has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202024peak #2,755, 2017boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#6,14314
2024#4,32124
2023#4,74221
2022#3,99527
2021#3,02140
2020#3,07437
2019#3,10338
2018#2,79643
2017#2,75544
2016#4,94319
2015#5,28917
2014#8,1309
2013#4,80419
2012#6,00114
2011#4,65920
2010#4,67820
2009#5,55416
2008#3,92126
2007#4,64020
2006#7,9989
2005#4,46419
2004#5,49214
2003#5,55813
2002#4,18819
2001#4,30218
2000#3,76421
1999#5,31712
1998#4,19716
1997#3,87717
1996#6,4968
1995#6,4078
1994#6,3728
1993#5,36010
1992#4,56412
1991#4,23113
1990#3,30918
1989#5,6158
1988#3,20316
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1986#4,8538
1985#5,7856
1984#6,3155
1983#4,9077
1982#3,96610
1981#4,9617
1980#4,4958
1979#3,56911
1978#5,0596
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First appearance
1965

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.

See more about Abdel
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 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)
Rise & fade · boys
52 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1965
  • Peaked 2017 at #2,755 (44 births)
  • Births halved by 2023, 6 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 42,067
  • 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%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 29.3% of all boys named Abdel (243) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s18#3,107 (1968)#3,662
1970s33#3,569 (1979)#4,824
1980s75#3,203 (1988)#4,900
1990s122#3,309 (1990)#5,013
2000s175#3,764 (2000)#4,988
2010s243#2,755 (2017)#4,716
2020s163#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 2024

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#4,321
24 births · 1 in 71,787 boys

Top boys' names in 2024

  1. #1Liam22,252
  2. #2Noah20,409
  3. #3Oliver15,396
  4. #4Theodore12,069
  5. #5James11,856
  6. #6Henry11,596
  7. #7Mateo11,349
  8. #8Elijah11,238
  9. #9Lucas10,743
  10. #10William10,647
  11. #4,321Abdel24
More about 2024

boys

1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 71,787 of them was named Abdel, which outranked 69.8% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Abdel
  1. #4,200Zeal25
  2. #4,200Zein25
  3. #4,200Zoe25
  4. #4,321Abdel24
  5. #4,321Adonay24
  6. #4,321Affan24
  7. #4,321Aithan24
  8. #4,433Aaryav23
  9. #4,433Acre23
  10. #4,433Adrius23

Tied with 111 names at #4,321; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2023
Risers
  1. 9,833Truce#10,821#988
  2. 1,201Colsen#1,832#631
  3. 616Bryer#1,485#869
  4. 470Halo#1,458#988
  5. 348Azaiah#1,230#882
Fallers
  1. 397Khari#827#1,224
  2. 309Karsyn#977#1,286
  3. 256Kye#940#1,196
  4. 225Kole#971#1,196
  5. 224Khai#723#947

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

See the top 100 for 2024