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Abed

Boys' name

Servant, worshipper

Abed has been given to 219 babies in the U.S. since 1979. 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 1995, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Abed, 2024

1 in 418,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Abed: meaning, origin, and history

Servant, worshipper

Arabic

What Abed means

Abed means “servant, worshipper”, associated with ʕābid.

Origin, language, and formation

Abed is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Abed comes through Arabic عَابِد.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Abed is pronounced /ˈɑːbɛd/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 219 boys were recorded with the name Abed between 1979 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1995; its best national rank was #4,499 in 1983.

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 Abed?

Abed had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 418,000
8 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 215,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
289,633 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Abed 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 2024 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 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Abed. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Abeds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Abed was born before 1997 — so the typical Abed is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
34.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
42.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
219
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 34.7% of all recorded uses (76).

Is Abed 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 1995 (13)
Years since peak
30
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
47.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,499
1983

Spellings of Abed

Abed is not the most common spelling — Fred is, with 23.9% against Abed'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.

Abed around the world

Where Abed 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
    1998–2015
    #4,747
    in 2015
  • France
    1955–2025
    #4,927
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1999–2021
    #2,619
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1999–1999
    #539
    in 1999

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Abed 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
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Best rank ever
#4,499
1983
Peak year
1995
13 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
219
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Abed

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

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Sibling names for Abed

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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