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Abdiel

#607 in 2025Boys' name

Servant of God

Abdiel has been given to 7,715 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #607 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 568 recorded.

Babies named Abdiel, 2025

1 in 7,110

Abdiel over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Abdiel: meaning, origin, and history

Servant of God

Hebrew

What Abdiel means

Abdiel means “servant of God”, associated with עֲבְדִּיאֵל.

Origin, language, and formation

Abdiel is used in English and Spanish. Its origins include Hebrew.

Abdiel comes through Hebrew עֲבְדִּיאֵל.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Abdiel is pronounced /abˈdjel/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,715 boys were recorded with the name Abdiel between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 568 in 2019; its best national rank was #504 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #520 in 2020 to #607 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #873 in 2015 to #607 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 Abdiel?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 7,110
466 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 3,670
0.03% of boys
Rank, 2025
#607
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
4,932 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Abdiel 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 1001%
School of 5007%

Put another way: gather 4,932 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Abdiel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Abdiels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Abdiel was born before 2017 — so the typical Abdiel is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
42.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
7,715
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 42.6% of all recorded uses (3,286).

Is Abdiel 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
+70
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−87
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+266
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.83×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
82.0%
Peak was 2019 (568)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#504
2019

Spellings of Abdiel

Abdiel is not the most common spelling — Gabriel is, with 68.0% against Abdiel's 1.3%.

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 Abdiel is used

Across 2016–2025, Abdiel was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 1,852 boys, against 1 in 3,738 across all states with data. It was least common in Missouri (1 in 50,000).

254 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 1,852
  2. 2Texas1 in 2,128
  3. 3New Mexico1 in 2,174
  4. 4Arizona1 in 2,273
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in 2,381
  6. 6New York1 in 2,381
  7. 7Maryland1 in 2,778
  8. 8Connecticut1 in 2,857

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.

Geographically, Abdiel is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 78% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Abdiel around the world

Where Abdiel 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
    2020–2023
    #3,524
    in 2023
  • France
    2024–2024
    #3,661
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2020–2022
    #2,959
    in 2022

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Abdiel

People whose public names include Abdiel, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Abdiel in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Abdiel. Linked forms have their own page here.

AbdiAbdiele

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Abdiel by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#607
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 87
Best rank ever
#504
2019
Peak year
2019
568 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,715
Count in 2025
466

Names similar to Abdiel

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

AbdulDarielJazielJadielAbdullahYadielAzrielAzielAbdiasJasielAbdrielGadielElielJarielYarielAbdoulZurielCastielAdrielHazielRazielOsielAdielAbdel

Names with a curve like Abdiel

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Abdiel, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ZaidRayanLennonMagnusZekeMakaiLachlanRaydenJasiahWestinMemphisAyaan

Sibling names for Abdiel

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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