Abed
Last seen for boys in 2024 at #8,987
- Peak · boys
- 1983 · 8 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 219since 1979
Abed over time
Rank among boys' names. Abed has never cracked the top 4,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | |
| 2024 | #8,987 | 8 |
| 2023 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | #10,863 | 6 |
| 2021 | — | |
| 2020 | — | |
| 2019 | #10,803 | 6 |
| 2018 | — | |
| 2017 | — | |
| 2016 | #10,744 | 6 |
| 2015 | — | |
| 2014 | — | |
| 2013 | #12,136 | 5 |
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| 2009 | #6,802 | 12 |
| 2008 | #11,037 | 6 |
| 2007 | — | |
| 2006 | #6,904 | 11 |
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| 2003 | #7,831 | 8 |
| 2002 | #6,522 | 10 |
| 2001 | — | |
| 2000 | #5,920 | 11 |
| 1999 | #9,912 | 5 |
| 1998 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | #6,618 | 8 |
| 1996 | #5,982 | 9 |
| 1995 | #4,508 | 13 |
| 1994 | #6,968 | 7 |
| 1993 | #5,002 | 11 |
| 1992 | #7,422 | 6 |
| 1991 | #6,519 | 7 |
| 1990 | #8,117 | 5 |
| 1989 | #5,615 | 8 |
| 1988 | #6,426 | 6 |
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| 1986 | #5,332 | 7 |
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| 1984 | #5,561 | 6 |
| 1983 | #4,499 | 8 |
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| 1980 | #4,940 | 7 |
| 1979 | #4,842 | 7 |
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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.
See more about Abed
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 1983 at #4,499 (8 births)
- Births halved by 1985, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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
- 34.7% of all boys named Abed (76) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 7 | #4,842 (1979) | #4,842 |
| 1980s | 42 | #4,499 (1983) | #5,396 |
| 1990s | 76 | #4,508 (1995) | #7,068 |
| 2000s | 58 | #5,920 (2000) | #7,503 |
| 2010s | 17 | #10,744 (2016) | #11,228 |
| 2020s | 19 | #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 1979
Top boys' names in 1979
More about 1979
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1,721,536 boys got a published name in 1979; 1 in 245,934 of them was named Abed, which outranked 31.5% of the 7,071 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,403Zavier8
- #4,403Zeferino8
- #4,403Zion8
- #4,842Abed7
- #4,842Abasi7
- #4,842Abdiel7
- #4,842Adair7
- #5,355Aasim6
- #5,355Abdallah6
- #5,355Abdula6
Tied with 512 names at #4,842; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.