Abdiel
Abdiel was given to 466 boys in 2025, #607 among boys’ names; 7,715 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,630 Americans named Abdiel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Abdiel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Abdiel mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Abdiel is “a male given name from Hebrew.” Its etymology gives the sense “servant of God” (עֲבְדִּיאֵל).
Borrowed from Hebrew עֲבְדִּיאֵל (“servant of God”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Abdiel?
#607 among boys’ names, 2025
Abdiel rose from #873 in 2015 to #607 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.13 to 0.27 per 1,000.
568 babies in 2019, the peak
Abdiel peaked in 2019, when 568 boys were given it, #504 among boys’ names. The 466 births of 2025 are 82% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 466 | #607 | 0.27 |
| 2024 | 403 | #677 | 0.23 |
| 2023 | 380 | #699 | 0.22 |
| 2022 | 321 | #787 | 0.18 |
| 2021 | 430 | #643 | 0.25 |
| 2020 | 552 | #520 | 0.32 |
| 2019 | 568 | #504 | 0.32 |
| 2018 | 440 | #610 | 0.24 |
| 2017 | 376 | #675 | 0.20 |
| 2016 | 329 | #741 | 0.17 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 254 | #873 | 0.13 |
| 2014 | 257 | #859 | 0.13 |
| 2013 | 271 | #806 | 0.14 |
| 2012 | 252 | #845 | 0.13 |
| 2011 | 275 | #800 | 0.14 |
| 2010 | 264 | #810 | 0.14 |
| 2009 | 229 | #900 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 199 | #987 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 180 | #1,048 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 144 | #1,173 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 135 | #1,181 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 118 | #1,269 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 81 | #1,558 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 93 | #1,403 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 67 | #1,706 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 74 | #1,581 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 48 | #1,992 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 56 | #1,788 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 46 | #1,961 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 54 | #1,722 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 28 | #2,621 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 30 | #2,497 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 27 | #2,635 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 38 | #2,041 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 28 | #2,463 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 24 | #2,689 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 26 | #2,463 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 14 | #3,518 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 15 | #3,197 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 18 | #2,776 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 23 | #2,292 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 7 | #4,974 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 18 | #2,576 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,592 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #4,960 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,133 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 7 | #4,841 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,059 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,162 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 12 | #3,093 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Abdiel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Abdiel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Abdiel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Abdiel, and how old are they?
7,630 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 7,715 Americans ever recorded as Abdiel. The median Abdiel alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 5,503 people named Abdiel (40 women and girls, 5,463 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,247 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 39 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 349 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,230 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,010 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Abdiel born?
The states with the most babies named Abdiel are Texas, California and New York, with 48% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 94 | #385 | 2.0× |
| California | 64 | #494 | 1.1× |
| New York | 42 | #407 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 24 | #662 | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 21 | #377 | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 20 | #489 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 19 | #513 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 16 | #625 | 0.8× |
| Arizona | 15 | #463 | 1.6× |
| North Carolina | 14 | #645 | 0.7× |
Where Abdiel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Abdiel is most over-represented in Texas: since 1976 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Abdiel with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 15,653 babies since 1880, Abdiel is the most given (49% of them). In 2025 it was given to 466 of their 576 babies (81%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Abdiel
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Abdiel and names like it
- Compare Abdiel and AbdulBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAbdiel peaked in 2019.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Abdiel since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Abdiel: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Abdiel.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Abdiel alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.