Zabdiel
Zabdiel was given to 134 boys in 2025, #1,380 among boys’ names; 1,533 Americans have been recorded with it since 1986 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,520 Americans named Zabdiel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 3 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zabdiel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zabdiel?
#1,380 among boys’ names, 2025
Zabdiel rose from #3,428 in 2015 to #1,380 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 17.2 to 78.5 per million.
205 babies in 2022, the peak
Zabdiel peaked in 2022, when 205 boys were given it, #1,072 among boys’ names. The 134 births of 2025 are 65% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 134 | #1,380 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 119 | #1,509 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 174 | #1,183 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 205 | #1,072 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 68 | #2,132 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 61 | #2,261 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 76 | #1,952 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 84 | #1,821 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 101 | #1,604 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 112 | #1,519 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 33 | #3,428 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 15 | #5,986 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 16 | #5,649 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 18 | #5,241 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 25 | #4,101 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 23 | #4,362 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 26 | #4,029 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 30 | #3,641 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 21 | #4,633 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 23 | #4,215 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 20 | #4,457 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 16 | #5,235 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 19 | #4,414 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 18 | #4,489 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 14 | #5,381 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 7 | #9,087 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 14 | #5,020 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 7 | #8,453 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 6 | #9,241 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,949 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,779 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 5 | #10,221 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #10,143 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 7 | #7,403 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 6 | #8,214 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 6 | #8,096 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,809 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zabdiel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zabdiel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zabdiel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zabdiel, and how old are they?
1,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,533 Americans ever recorded as Zabdiel. The median Zabdiel alive today is 7 years old; half are between 3 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 746 people named Zabdiel (9 women and girls, 737 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 780 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 46 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 283 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,190 |
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 Zabdiel born?
The states with the most babies named Zabdiel are California, Texas and New York, with 53% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 18 | #1,149 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 16 | #1,293 | 1.4× |
| New York | 14 | #947 | 1.6× |
| New Jersey | 12 | #606 | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,024 | 0.3× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,822 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,276 | 0.3× |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #788 | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,434 | 0.7× |
Where Zabdiel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zabdiel is most over-represented in New York: since 1986 it was given 1.6 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 Zabdiel with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Zabdiel
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.
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