Abde
given name · Arabic · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Abde is a given name, most frequently recorded in Kenya. In Somalia it is the 2nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Arabic and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: servant.
- MAMorocco1 in 1.5K◐
- KEKenya1 in 1.6K
- SESweden1 in 1.7K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈11K ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 264 ●
- 1 in 1.7K ◐
across 9 countries
recorded for this name
123K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Abdi in US United States, KE Kenya, SE Sweden and 11 more, Абди in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan and 'Abdi' in CH Switzerland.
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
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | #224 | 18,607 | 18K rec. | — | — | Abdi | 75 |
| MA Morocco | #155 | 10,216 | 12K rec. | — | — | Abde | 49 |
| SE Sweden | #431 | 6,016 | 11K rec. | 1 in 1.7K | 6K | Abdi | 66 |
| TZ Tanzania | #178 | 5,194 | 1.9K rec. | — | 3 | Abdi | 28 |
| DZ Algeria | #177 | 3,201 | 4.8K rec. | — | listed | Abde | 33 |
| US United States | — | 3,074 | 35K rec. | 1 in 108K | 13K | Abdi | 264 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 2,999 | 3K rec. | — | — | Abdi | 115 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 2,639 | 6.8K rec. | — | — | Abdi | 33 |
| ET Ethiopia | #86 | 1,921 | 2.8K rec. | — | — | Abdi | 35 |
| SY Syria | — | 1,268 | 5.3K rec. | — | — | Abdi | 13 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | 810 | 583 rec. | — | — | Abdi | 48 |
| FI Finland | — | 712△ | 177 rec. | 1 in 7.8K | 1K | — | 34 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Arabic13K48%
- French4.4K16%
- Amharic1.8K7%
- English1.1K4%
- Spanish8423%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | 13,096 | 48% |
| French | 4,407 | 16% |
| Amharic | 1,795 | 7% |
| English | 1,067 | 4% |
| Spanish | 842 | 3% |
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●
Abde is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of abdō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Evidence●
Attested in 18 sources across 11 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 75 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Abde?
- We estimate roughly 11 thousand people bear Abde (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Abde have the most bearers?
- Abde is most frequently recorded in Kenya, where it is most often spelled abdi.
- How common is Abde compared with other names?
- In Kenya, Abde is the 224th most common given name of 51,773 given names recorded there.
- Is Abde a male or female name?
- Abde is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Abde mean?
- Recorded meaning: servant
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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, “Abde” — the 224th most common given name in Kenya. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.