Abdiel

#607 for boys in 2025, 466 births

Peak · boys
2019 · 568 births
Debut · boys
12 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
7,715
since 1976

Abdiel over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Abdiel has never cracked the top 500 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201976peak #504, 2019boys
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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
2025#607466
2024#677403
2023#699380
2022#787321
2021#643430
2020#520552
2019#504568
2018#610440
2017#675376
2016#741329
2015#873254
2014#859257
2013#806271
2012#845252
2011#800275
2010#810264
2009#900229
2008#987199
2007#1,048180
2006#1,172144
2005#1,182135
2004#1,271118
2003#1,56181
2002#1,40693
2001#1,71067
2000#1,58574
1999#1,99548
1998#1,79156
1997#1,96446
1996#1,72554
1995#2,62628
1994#2,50230
1993#2,64127
1992#2,04638
1991#2,46928
1990#2,69524
1989#2,46926
1988#3,52314
1987#3,20115
1986#2,77918
1985#2,29323
1984#4,9737
1983#2,57718
1982#4,5938
1981#4,9617
1980#4,1349
1979#4,8427
1978#5,0596
1977#4,1648
1976#3,09512
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First appearance
1976

The first year at least five boys were named Abdiel! It came in at #3,095, and was given to 12 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1977–1982, when fewer than 10 boys a year got the name.

See more about Abdiel
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 70 spots since 2024 (#677#607)
  • 87 spots since 2020 (#520#607)
  • 266 spots since 2015 (#873#607)
  • Biggest jump: 132 spots in 2016 (#873#741)
  • Biggest drop: 144 spots in 2022 (#643#787)
Rise & fade · boys
43 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1976
  • Peaked 2019 at #504 (568 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 18 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 18 yrs · run 2008–2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 3,127
  • Highest: 1 in 3,127 boys born in 2020 were named Abdiel (0.03%)
  • Latest: 1 in 3,665 boys born in 2025 (0.03%)
  • Its best rank, #504 in 2019, was only 1 in 3,159 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 42.6% of all boys named Abdiel (3,286) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s33#3,095 (1976)#4,290
1980s145#2,293 (1985)#3,550
1990s379#1,725 (1996)#2,245
2000s1,320#900 (2009)#1,282
2010s3,286#504 (2019)#752
2020s2,552#520 (2020)#656

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.

Abdiel in 1976

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#3,095
12 births · 1 in 130,751 boys

Top boys' names in 1976

  1. #1Michael66,915
  2. #2Jason52,643
  3. #3Christopher45,190
  4. #4David39,265
  5. #5James38,294
  6. #6John33,976
  7. #7Robert33,789
  8. #8Brian30,517
  9. #9Matthew29,951
  10. #10Daniel24,702
  11. #3,095Abdiel12
More about 1976

boys

1,569,007 boys got a published name in 1976; 1 in 130,751 of them was named Abdiel, which outranked 52.3% of the 6,495 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 25.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Abdiel
  1. #2,946Welton13
  2. #2,946Yaphet13
  3. #2,946Ygnacio13
  4. #3,095Abdiel12
  5. #3,095Akiva12
  6. #3,095Alfie12
  7. #3,095Alika12
  8. #3,264Aeron11
  9. #3,264Akio11
  10. #3,264Albaro11

Tied with 168 names at #3,095; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1975
Risers
  1. 3,506Seneca#4,309#803
  2. 1,165Jameel#2,134#969
  3. 712Delvin#1,658#946
  4. 567Jerimy#1,530#963
  5. 510Jamaal#1,042#532
Fallers
  1. 1,113Santino#1,000#2,113
  2. 511Carnell#900#1,411
  3. 453Nakia#337#790
  4. 395Charlton#938#1,333
  5. 376Benjiman#970#1,346

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

See the top 100 for 1976