Abdel
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Arabic: servant
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈæbˌdɛɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Abdel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Morocco than in any other country.
- JOJordan≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- MAMorocco≈1 in 1.3K
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 2.2K
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.
- Morocco (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 295 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈27,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Cameroon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Arabic: servant
Sources 1
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Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Abdel is read(measured from records)
Abdel is one spelling over 4 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.
- Arabic33%
servant
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
- French31%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Abdel in French.
- Spanish10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Abdel in Spanish.
- English9.5%
Arabic: servant
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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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Abdel 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MA Morocco | #121 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Abdel | 105 |
| CM Cameroon | #281 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Abdel | 25 |
| DZ Algeria | #128 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Abdel | 70 |
| FR France | #532 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | 4.8K | Abdel | 295 |
| EG Egypt | #275 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | — | Abdel | 171 |
| JO Jordan | #132 | ≈8,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Abdel | 92 |
| BE Belgium | #421 | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | 5 | Abdel | 73 |
| US United States | — | 2,010 | 1 in 165K | 2K | Abdel | 286 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Abdel 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.
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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)
- Abdel Messih El-Makarib. 1892EG20th century Coptic saint (1892–1963)
- Abdel Qissib. 1960MAMoroccan actor
- Amr Abdel Gelilb. 1963EGEgyptian actor
- Ashraf Abdel Bakyb. 1963EGEgyptian actor
- Abdel Lamanjeb. 1990CMFrench footballer
- Abdel Naderb. 1993EGEgyptian basketball player
- Abdel Medioubb. 1997FRAlgerian footballer
- Abdel Abqarb. 1999MAassociation football player
- MC Abdulb. 2008ILnot in their usual namePalestinian rapper from Gaza
- Abdel Nasser Ould EthmaneMRhuman rights activist
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 76 sources across 42 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 4.8K | #1,019 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2K | #7,550 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 14 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 8 | #7,550 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Abdel mean, and where does it come from?
- Arabic: servant Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- What are other forms of the name Abdel?
- In the etymology graph, Obed, Abdou and Abdoul are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Abdel?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈæbˌdɛɫ/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Abdel a male or female name?
- Abdel 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.
- In which country does Abdel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 27 thousand people named Abdel in Morocco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled abdel.
- How common is the name Abdel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,010 people named Abdel in 2020, about 1 in 165 thousand residents.
- How common is Abdel compared with other names?
- In Morocco, Abdel is the 121st most common given name of 41,711 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Abdel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/abdelThe 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, “Abdel” — the 121st most common given name in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.