Abd
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Arabic: 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
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˌeɪˌbiˈdi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Abd is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country, where it is the 4th most common surname.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 185(inferred from the name graph)
- EGEgypt≈1 in 374
- SYSyria≈1 in 955
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 190 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 185 (inferred from the name graph)
≈280,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
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.
How Abd is read(measured from records)
Abd is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Arabic55%
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
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Malay29%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Abd in Malay.
- English7.4%
Initialism of all but dissertation.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Abd counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #4 | ≈280,000 est. | ≈1 in 374 | listed | Abd | 171 |
| MY Malaysia | #5 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 185 | — | Abd | 137 |
| ID Indonesia | #601 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | listed | Abd | 132 |
| SD Sudan | #104 | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 902 | 1 | Abd | 51 |
| SY Syria | #19 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 955 | — | Abd | 56 |
| KW Kuwait | #110 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Abd | 58 |
| FI Finland | — | 45 | 1 in 124K | 229 | — | 5 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the wgnd-eg-names register; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Abd is also recorded in 4 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 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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 47 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 229 | #1,730 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 99 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 85 | #3,281 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 33 | — |
| EG Egypt | WGND 2.0 — Egypt given names | — | — | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Abd mean, and where does it come from?
- 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 Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Abd?
- A machine transcription gives /ˌeɪˌbiˈdi/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- In which country does Abd have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 278 thousand people named Abd in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled abd.
- How common is the name Abd?
- In Finland, the national register counted 45 people named Abd, about 1 in 124 thousand residents.
- How common is Abd compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Abd is the 4th most common surname of 306,210 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/abdThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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 4th most common surname in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.