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Abid

#8,915 in 2025Boys' name

Worshipper, admirer, adorer

Abid has been given to 399 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #8,915 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Abid, 2025

1 in 414,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Abid: meaning, origin, and history

Worshipper, admirer, adorer

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Abid means

Abid means “worshipper, admirer, adorer”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 399 boys were recorded with the name Abid between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2006; its best national rank was #4,242 in 1997.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,074 in 2020 to #8,915 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,746 in 2015 to #8,915 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.

How common is Abid?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,915
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Abid 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Abid. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Abids were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Abid was born before 2006 — so the typical Abid is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
30.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
63.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
399
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Choose a decade

2000s — 30.3% of all recorded uses (121).

Is Abid 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
−2,081
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−841
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−169
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2006 (16)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,242
1997

Spellings of Abid

Abid is not the most common spelling — David is, with 91.3% against Abid's <0.01%.

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 Abid is used

Across 1910–2025, Abid was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 360,104 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Abid has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Abid around the world

Where Abid 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
    1996–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1982–1986
    #317
    in 1986
  • Ireland
    2021–2021
    #631
    in 2021
  • France
    1962–2025
    #3,615
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1999–2012
    #2,715
    in 2012
  • South Australia
    1984–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.

Abid by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,915
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 841
Best rank ever
#4,242
1997
Peak year
2006
16 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
399
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Abid

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

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Sibling names for Abid

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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