Abid

given name · Urdu · Latin script

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

Abid is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. In Pakistan it is the 17th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Urdu and Hindi, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: simple past and past participle of abide.

rarermore common
  • PKPakistan1 in 1.2K◐
  • UZUzbekistan1 in 1.8K
  • SASaudi Arabia1 in 3.3K

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

≈2.5K ●

across 5 countries

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
179 ●

168K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 36K ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

AbidLatin · Urdu●203K records
ОбидCyrillic · Uzbek●11K records
আবিদBengali · Bangla●220 records
อาบิดThai · Thai●62 records

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Обид in UZ Uzbekistan, RU Russia, TJ Tajikistan and 2 more, Aabid in IN India and Абід in 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●

simple past and past participle of abide

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Abid is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India—268,810101K rec.—492Aabid140
PK Pakistan#17157,6497.4K rec.—listedAbid125
BD Bangladesh#38749,6853.5K rec.—listedAbid86
SY Syria#5327,88013K rec.——Abid12
UZ Uzbekistan#3197,397214 rec.—listedОбид20
SA Saudi Arabia#1586,6831.7K rec.——Abid76
RU Russia—4,7923.3K rec.—#2,620Обид73
GB United Kingdom—3,9931.8K rec.—3Abid98
ID Indonesia—3,271840 rec.——Abid92
AE United Arab Emirates#1532,2312.6K rec.——Abid82
MY Malaysia—1,8461.4K rec.——Abid26
TR Türkiye—1,5883.9K rec.——Abid12

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

Languages●

  • Urdu203K36%
  • Hindi88K15%
  • English75K13%
  • Bangla60K11%
  • 57K10%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Urdu202,88736%
Hindi87,87115%
English75,49913%
Bangla60,03411%
56,81910%

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◐

Abid is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name99K records spelled Abid20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bangladesh, India, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Abíd, Äbid, Ābïď, Ãbíd, Abiď

  • a separate given name76K records spelled Abid4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, United States, Morocco

    Also written Âbid, Ābid, َabid

  • French given name25K records spelled Abid19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, Belgium, United States

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Àbid, Abîd, Àbïd, Abïd, Äbîd

  • Turkish given name20K records spelled Abid9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Syria, Türkiye, Russia, Kyrgyzstan

    Languages: Turkish, Uzbek, Azerbaijani

    Also written Абид, Ãbiď, Äbïd, Abíd, Åbïd

  • Spanish given name13K records spelled Abid13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Mexico, India

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ãbîd, Ầḅiḑ, Âbíd, Ãbid, Âbìd

  • Pashto given name6.8K records spelled Abid2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, United States, Afghanistan

    Also written Äbid

  • Romanian given name1.9K records spelled Abid3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United Kingdom, Pakistan, India, Spain

    Also written Ăbíď, Abîd

48 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.

Other recorded senses●

Abid 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.

  • servo de Deus; God servant

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

  • In Arabic, worshipper, adorer, devout. LI! Y,

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

  • In Arabic, devout.

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

  • spark of fire

    as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman

  • eternal

    as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman

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●

0204060801920194019601980200063 · 1984

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Abid in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1917–2015
Yearrecords
19171
19211
19251
19281
19311
19322
19341
19351
19361
19382
19393
19407
19425
19432
19444
19454
19463
19472
19486
19495
19506
19519
19527
19535
19544
19557
195610
19578
195814
195911
196015
196112
196214
196311
196422
196513
196625
196722
196816
196926
197021
197129
197239
197329
197442
197527
197620
197733
197839
197934
198030
198137
198251
198353
198463
198535
198639
198759
198838
198946
199034
199130
199247
199344
199437
199539
199638
199727
199817
19993
20085
20102
20114
20121
20148
20155

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 76 years between 1917–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

500100015002000'Abid ibn al-Abras, b. 510`Abid, b. 1590Abid Ali Abid, b. 1906Abid Ali, b. 1911Abid Hussain, b. 1926Abid Surti, b. 1935Abid Ali, b. 1952Abid Kovačević, b. 1952Abid Hamid Mahmud, b. 1957Abid Nabi, b. 1985
  • 'Abid ibn al-Abrasb. 510Arab poet
  • `Abidb. 1590Indian miniature painter, son of Aqa Riza and brother of Abu’l-Hasan (fl c. 1615–58)
  • Abid Ali Abidb. 1906INpoet (1906–1971)
  • Abid Alib. 1911INIndian National Army officer
  • Abid Hussainb. 1926INIndian economist, diplomat and civil servant. (1926–2012)
  • Abid Surtib. 1935INIndian author, painter, cartoonist, journalist, environmentalist, playwright and screenwriter
  • Abid Alib. 1952PKPakistani television actor
  • Abid Kovačevićb. 1952RSYugoslav footballer
  • Abid Hamid Mahmudb. 1957IQIraqi military officer (1957-2012)
  • Abid Nabib. 1985INIndian cricketer

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 77 sources across 41 countries.

Official registers attesting Abid
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.7K#16,806
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.4K#9,752
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.2K#3,905
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.2K#3,901
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101K#24,049
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000646#33,333
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—564#4,190
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—554#2,713
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—506#2,089
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—492#9,293
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991440—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—304#3,511

Reference works 8

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 387 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Abid?
We estimate roughly 2.5 thousand people bear Abid (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does Abid have the most bearers?
Abid is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled aabid.
How common is Abid compared with other names?
In Pakistan, Abid is the 17th most common given name of 75,254 given names recorded there.
Is Abid a male or female name?
Abid 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 Abid mean?
Recorded meaning: simple past and past participle of abide
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About this data

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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, “Abid” — the 17th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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