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Abdias vs Abdullahi

American parents have registered 1,843 Abdullahis since 1880, against 919 Abdiases. But in 2025 it was Abdias that was commoner, 43 babies to 41.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Abdias against Abdullahi, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Abdias Abdullahi

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 42 years in which either name was published, Abdullahi for 29 years and Abdias for 13 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Abdias Abdullahi
Total US births 9191,843
Most in one year 49113
Babies in 2025 4341
Estimated living today 9101,800
Median age today 1112
Peak year 20162013
Best rank 2,551st boys1,459th boys
Rank in 2025 2,884th2,991st
First recorded 19751993
Girls / boys 0 / 9190 / 1,843

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Abdias Abdullahi
France 4510

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Abdias and Abdullahi.