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Abida

Girls' name

Feminine form of Abid

Abida has been given to 56 babies in the U.S. since 1998. 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 2003, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Abida, 2024

1 in 669,000

Abida over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Abida: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Abid

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Abida means

Abida is a feminine form of Abid.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Abida is used in Arabic and Urdu.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈʕaː.bi.da/ and /ˈɑː.bɪ.d̪ɑ/ for Abida.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Abida → Abid. The family’s meaning is “worshipper, admirer, adorer”, recorded in the naming reference for Abid.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Abid.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 56 girls were recorded with the name Abida between 1998 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2003; its best national rank was #12,201 in 2023.

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 Abida?

Abida 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 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Abida sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Abida. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Abidas were born

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

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
35.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
56
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 35.7% of all recorded uses (20).

Is Abida 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2003 (7)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#12,201
2023

Spellings of Abida

Abida is not the most common spelling — Anita is, with 20.2% against Abida'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.

Abida around the world

Where Abida 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
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1985–1985
    #565
    in 1985
  • France
    1971–2018
    #7,213
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    2004–2004
    #700
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Abida by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#12,201
2023
Peak year
2003
7 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
56
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Abida

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

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Sibling names for Abida

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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