Abd
surname · Arabic · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Abd is a surname, most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is the 6th most common surname. It appears chiefly in Arabic and Malay, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: servant (male). The word Abd is used with the attributes of Allah to form compound names, e.g.
- YEYemen1 in 36◐
- MYMalaysia1 in 241
- EGEgypt1 in 273
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈982 ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 183 ●
- 1 in 51K ◐
across 5 countries
recorded for this name
444K records
Official registry-verified
Norway
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Абд in RU Russia, UA Ukraine.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
servant (male). The word Abd is used with the attributes of Allah to form compound names, e.g. Abd Al-Aziz, servant of the All-mighty. Comp. Amat 4.j, female servant
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #6 | 227,820 | 181K rec. | — | — | Abd | 123 |
| EG Egypt | #7 | 152,180 | 54K rec. | — | listed | Abd | 156 |
| YE Yemen | #3 | 69,776 | 0 rec. | — | — | Abd | 19 |
| SY Syria | #29 | 23,494 | 69K rec. | — | — | Abd | 52 |
| ID Indonesia | #575 | 11,728 | 8.5K rec. | — | listed | Abd | 119 |
| FR France | — | 6,293 | 10K rec. | — | 1.6K | Abd | 183 |
| MA Morocco | #68 | 4,100 | 22K rec. | — | — | Abd | 62 |
| DZ Algeria | #19 | 3,909 | 14K rec. | — | — | Abd | 59 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #194 | 2,969 | 11K rec. | — | listed | Abd | 110 |
| SD Sudan | #8 | 2,440 | 778 rec. | — | 1 | Abd | 44 |
| IQ Iraq | #136 | 2,385 | 7.5K rec. | — | — | Abd | 62 |
| DE Germany | — | 1,834 | 3.7K rec. | — | 2 | Abd | 94 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Arabic268K48%
- Malay151K27%
- English48K9%
- Indonesian32K6%
- French7K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | 267,741 | 48% |
| Malay | 151,374 | 27% |
| English | 47,641 | 9% |
| Indonesian | 31,983 | 6% |
| French | 7,001 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Abd is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Manaf servant of Manaf, ancestor
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
In English, Initialism of all but dissertation.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkish, initialism of Amerika Birleşik Devletleri (= United States of America): a country in North America: USA
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
IATA airport code for Abadan International Airport, which serves Abadan, Khuzestan, Iran.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Kalps (arābu val.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 33 |
| 2000 | 35 |
| 2001 | 36 |
| 2002 | 40 |
| 2003 | 46 |
| 2004 | 49 |
| 2005 | 49 |
| 2006 | 53 |
| 2007 | 56 |
| 2008 | 69 |
| 2009 | 73 |
| 2010 | 76 |
| 2011 | 80 |
| 2012 | 94 |
| 2013 | 138 |
| 2014 | 209 |
| 2015 | 303 |
| 2016 | 498 |
| 2017 | 572 |
| 2018 | 606 |
| 2019 | 626 |
| 2020 | 630 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Alaa S Abd-El-Azizb. 1959researcher
- Nadja Abd el Farragb. 1965DEGerman television personality (1965–2025)
- Rodrigo Abdb. 1976ARArgentine photojournalist
- Maisa Abd Elhadib. 1985ILArab-Israeli actress of Palestinian descent
- Dalia El AbdEGEgyptian dancer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 47 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1.6K | #1,474 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.3K | #1,408 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 630 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 379 | #57,938 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 256 | #3,987 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 229 | #3,214 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 195 | #93,921 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 123 | #6,125 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 99 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 89 | #1,552 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 85 | #5,964 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 74 | #5,295 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 174 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Abd?
- We estimate roughly 982 people bear Abd (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Abd have the most bearers?
- Abd is most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is most often spelled abd.
- How common is Abd compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Abd is the 6th most common surname of 241,605 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Abd mean?
- Recorded meaning: servant (male). The word Abd is used with the attributes of Allah to form compound names, e.g.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Abd” — the 6th most common surname in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.