Abdel
About 829 American babies have been named Abdel since 1965, most of them around 2017. In 2025 it ranked 6,143rd. About 810 Abdels are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 16.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Abdel
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 829
- Estimated living today
- 810
- Median age today
- 16
- Peak year
- 2017
- Best rank
- 2,755th
- Rank in 2025
- 6,143rd
- First recorded
- 1965
How old the living Abdels are
born that year still alive today
Of the 829 babies given the name since 1965, about 810 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2009 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Abdels
- Abdel Fattah el-Sisi (born 1954)President of Egypt since 2014
- Abdel Fattah al-Burhan (born 1960)President of the Sovereignty Council of Sudan
- Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi (1947–2004)Palestinian political leader
- Abdel Hakim Amer (1919–1967)Egyptian military officer and politician
- Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab (1934–2018)President of Sudan
- Abdel Abqar (born 1999)association football player
- Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh (born 1951)physician
- Abdel Rahman Badawi (1917–2002)Egyptian academic, philosopher and poet
People named Abdel with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Abdel is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Abdel is most concentrated in Florida (5.9×), Texas (5.2×), California (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2017
The most popular boys’ names the year Abdel peaked:
Abdel elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Abdel | 4,860 | 313th |
| Belgium boys | Abdel | 292 | 586th |
| England and Wales boys | Abdel | 147 | 1,347th |
| Ireland boys | Abdel | 3 | 500th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Abdel: rank by region
In 2020, Abdel was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brussels | Abdel | 262 | 6 |
In 2020, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Abdel appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (262nd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Abdel among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Abdel | 43 | 90 |
| Finland girls | Abdel | — | 13 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Abdel against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.