Abdi

Where Abdi comes from

The dictionaries list Abdi as a given name — a male given name, variant of Abdul — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1997
    First appearance
    #9,265 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2005
    Peak, #3,941
    23 babies named Abdi — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2014
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #8,781.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name, variant of Abdul.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Abdi hasn't yet.

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.