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Abdon

Boys' name

Servant

Abdon has been given to 359 babies in the U.S. since 1915. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1975, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Abdon, 2015

1 in 529,000

Abdon over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Abdon: meaning, origin, and history

Servant

Hebrew

What Abdon means

Abdon means “servant”, associated with abdon.

Origin, language, and formation

Abdon is used in English, Czech and Polish. Its origins include Hebrew.

Abdon comes through Hebrew עבדון.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include عَبْد.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Abdon is pronounced [ˈabdon].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 359 boys were recorded with the name Abdon between 1915 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1975; its best national rank was #2,828 in 1915.

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 Abdon?

Abdon had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 529,000
7 of 3,701,574 births
Among boys only
1 in 274,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
366,535 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Abdon 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 2015 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 366,535 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Abdon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Abdons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Abdon was born before 1988 — so the typical Abdon is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
18.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
43.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
301
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 18.9% of all recorded uses (68).

Is Abdon 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1975 (13)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,828
1915

Spellings of Abdon

Abdon is not the most common spelling — Aaron is, with 34.3% against Abdon's 0.02%.

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 Abdon is used

Across 1910–2025, Abdon was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,096,291 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Abdon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Abdon around the world

Where Abdon 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
    1900–1971
    #1,819
    in 1971

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

Abdon by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,828
1915
Peak year
1975
13 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
359
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Abdon

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

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Sibling names for Abdon

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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