Abid
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: simple past and past participle of abide
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈeɪbɪd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Abid is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 13th most common given name.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 765(inferred from the name graph)
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 1.6K
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 1.9K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 189 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 765 (inferred from the name graph)
≈310,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, 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)
simple past and past participle of abide
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Abid is read(measured from records)
Abid 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.
- Urdu45%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Abid in Urdu.
- Hindi20%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Abid in Hindi.
- English6.1%
simple past and past participle of abide
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Arabic5.8%
worshipper, adorer, devout. LI! Y,
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
devout.
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Abid 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #13 | ≈310,000 est. | ≈1 in 765 | listed | Abid | 146 |
| BD Bangladesh | #292 | ≈84,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | listed | Abid | 90 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Abid | 99 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #110 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Abid | 80 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #125 | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Abid | 86 |
| US United States | — | 1,406 | 1 in 237K | 1.7K | Abid | 189 |
| KW Kuwait | #434 | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Abid | 18 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
Abid is also recorded in 3 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,…
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- '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).
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 78 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.4K | #9,752 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 14 | #9,752 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 8 | — |
Reference works 9
- 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)
- 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 Abid mean, and where does it come from?
- simple past and past participle of abide Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- 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.
- How do you pronounce Abid?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈeɪbɪd/ (IPA) for Urdu.
- In which country does Abid have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 305 thousand people named Abid in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled abid.
- How common is the name Abid?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,406 people named Abid in 2020, about 1 in 237 thousand residents.
- How common is Abid compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Abid is the 13th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Abid?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/abidThe 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, “Abid” — the 13th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.