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Abdel

#6,142 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Abdul

Abdel has been given to 829 babies in the U.S. since 1965. In 2025 it ranked #6,142 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 44 recorded.

Babies named Abdel, 2025

1 in 237,000

Abdel over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Abdel: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Abdul

Arabic

What Abdel means

Abdel is a alternate transcription of Abdul.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Abdel → Abdul. The family’s meaning is “servant [of] + the”, recorded in English with the source elements عَبْد and ال.

Origin, language, and formation

Abdel is used in Dutch. Its origins include Arabic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Abdul.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 829 boys were recorded with the name Abdel between 1965 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 44 in 2017; its best national rank was #2,754 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,073 in 2020 to #6,142 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,288 in 2015 to #6,142 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Abdel?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 122,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,142
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Abdel sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Abdel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Abdels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Abdel was born before 2009 — so the typical Abdel is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
29.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
67.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
829
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 29.3% of all recorded uses (243).

Is Abdel rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,824
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,069
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−854
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.82×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
31.8%
Peak was 2017 (44)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,754
2017

Spellings of Abdel

Abdel is not the most common spelling — Angel is, with 28.1% against Abdel's 0.09%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Abdel is used

Across 1910–2025, Abdel was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 462,585 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in —
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Abdel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Abdel around the world

Where Abdel ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2024
    #4,271
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2003–2003
    #500
    in 2003
  • France
    1939–2025
    #1,137
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2023
    #2,026
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1999–1999
    #539
    in 1999

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Abdel by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,142
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,069
Best rank ever
#2,754
2017
Peak year
2017
44 that year
First recorded
1965
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
829
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Abdel

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Abdel

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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