Abdou

given name · French · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Abdou is a given name, most frequently recorded in Algeria, where it is the 60th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Arabic, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • SNSenegal1 in 99◐
  • MAMorocco1 in 1.3K
  • DZAlgeria1 in 1.5K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈3.9K ●

across 10 countries

Sources
232 ●

115K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 34K ◐

Spain

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Abdou is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DZ Algeria#6016,49619K rec.——Abdou44
MA Morocco#12811,87612K rec.—listedAbdou60
SN Senegal#96,7952.4K rec.—97Abdou60
RO Romania#2175,30119 rec.——Abdou6
EG Egypt#9483,9934.6K rec.——Abdou119
ES Spain—1,4861.5K rec.1 in 34K1.5KAbdou54
IT Italy—1,3901.8K rec.—2Abdou46
TN Tunisia#2621,3251.2K rec.——Abdou19
CM Cameroon#681,2352.3K rec.——Abdou22
FR France—1,18552K rec.1 in 57K1.2KAbdou232
SY Syria—9711.7K rec.——Abdou16
US United States—7997.1K rec.1 in 416K1.2KAbdou159

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • French76K61%
  • Arabic19K16%
  • Spanish8.2K7%
  • English5K4%
  • Catalan1.5K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French75,57161%
Arabic19,40416%
Spanish8,1997%
English4,9534%
Catalan1,4861%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Abdou is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name16K records spelled Abdou90 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Algeria, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Abdoue, Àbdou, Ãbdou, Abdoù, Ãbdóû

  • Spanish given name13K records spelled Abdou36 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Argentina, Brazil, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Àbdou, Àbdoù, Àbdôü, Abdóu, Abdoù

  • Swahili given name1.2K records spelled Abdou4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Romania, Morocco, Cameroon

    Also written Âbdöû

  • Turkish given name929 records spelled Abdou4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, Senegal, Algeria

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Äbdöù, Âbdöü

  • Indonesian given name788 records spelled Abdou13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Morocco, Romania, Algeria, Indonesia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Abdoù, Abdôu, Ãbdou, Ãbdõû, Àbdôû

  • Hindi given name530 records spelled Abdou7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, Senegal, Algeria, Morocco

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Àbdou, Abdõu, Abdôu, Âbdôû, Äbdöù

59 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

0510152020002010202019 · 2024

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Abdou in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1991–2025
Yearrecords
19915
19925
19946
19965
19989
19998
200011
20016
20026
20037
200411
200511
200613
200714
200815
20099
20107
201111
201216
201312
20146
20157
201613
20179
20187
201912
202011
202111
202210
202314
202419
202511

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 32 years between 1991–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18001850190019502000Abdu al-Hamuli, b. 1836Abdou Moumouni Dioffo, b. 1929Abdou Diouf, b. 1935Abdo Dagher, b. 1936Abdou Elimam, b. 1949Abdou Sidikou Issa, b. 1964Abdou Kolley, b. 1970Abdou Sall, b. 1980Abdou Jammeh, b. 1986Abdou Diallo, b. 1996

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 64 sources across 38 countries.

Official registers attesting Abdou
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.5K#2,167
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20241.2K#928
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.2K#1,127
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.2K#22,823
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010859#27,918
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020799#14,606
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991567—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000502#40,987
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—271#13,087
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—271#13,058
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—215#4,971
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—202#8,912

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 · 209 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Abdou?
We estimate roughly 3.9 thousand people bear Abdou (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Abdou have the most bearers?
Abdou is most frequently recorded in Algeria, where it is most often spelled abdou.
How common is Abdou compared with other names?
In Algeria, Abdou is the 60th most common given name of 30,102 given names recorded there.
Is Abdou a male or female name?
Abdou 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.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Abdou” — the 60th most common given name in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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