girls:
10 births since 2001
#5706 (0th percentile)
boys:
324 births since 1997
#4262 (7th percentile)
overall:
334 births since 1997
#7405 (4th percentile)
The name Abdi is the #7,405 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 334 recorded births since 1997. This represents the 4.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,262 (7.0% percentile) for all time with 324 births since 1997. For girls, it ranks #5,706 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 2001.
Abdi first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1997 (1997 for boys and 2001 for girls). Birth data for Abdi is available in 26 out of the 27 years between 1997 and 2023 (26 years for boys and 2 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Abdi has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Abdi reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #855) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 11 births per million (ranked 2.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Abdi ranks #907 for boys (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 45.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Abdi reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #898) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2006.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Abdi".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Abdi. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 75.0% confident that Abdi is pronounced as AB-dee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ab-dee, at 8.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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