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Abdias

#2,883 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Obadiah

Abdias has been given to 919 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #2,883 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 49 recorded.

Babies named Abdias, 2025

1 in 77,100

Abdias 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Abdias: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Obadiah

Hebrew

What Abdias means

Abdias is a form of Obadiah.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Abdias → Obadiah. The family’s meaning is “servant of Yahweh”, recorded in English with the source elements Ovadya.

Origin, language, and formation

Abdias is used in Portuguese. Its origins include Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Obadiah.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Abdias is pronounced /a.biˈd͡ʒi.ɐs/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 919 boys were recorded with the name Abdias between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 49 in 2016; its best national rank was #2,550 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,343 in 2020 to #2,883 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,366 in 2015 to #2,883 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Abdias?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 77,100
43 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 39,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,883
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
53,441 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Abdias 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 53,441 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Abdias. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Abdiass were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Abdias was born before 2013 — so the typical Abdias is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
82.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
919
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 37.8% of all recorded uses (347).

Is Abdias 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
−10
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+460
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+483
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.30×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
87.8%
Peak was 2016 (49)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,550
2016

Spellings of Abdias

Abdias is not the most common spelling — Abdiel is, with 44.0% against Abdias's 5.2%.

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 Abdias is used

Across 1910–2025, Abdias was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 201,911 across all states with data. It was least common in Georgia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Georgia1 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. Abdias has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Abdias around the world

Where Abdias 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.

  • France
    2002–2024
    #3,691
    in 2024

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Abdias by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,883
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 460
Best rank ever
#2,550
2016
Peak year
2016
49 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
919
Count in 2025
43

Names similar to Abdias

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

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Sibling names for Abdias

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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