Abde
given name · Latin script
Meaning: servant
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/əbd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Abde is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ethiopia than in any other country, where it is the 99th most common given name.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 908(inferred from the name graph)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 1.9K
- ETEthiopia≈1 in 471as Abdi
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Abde itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ethiopia (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 291 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 908 (inferred from the name graph)
≈230,000 named Abdi, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Abdi in KE Kenya, SE Sweden, TZ Tanzania and 3 more.
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
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Abde 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ET Ethiopia | #99 | ≈230,000 est. | ≈1 in 471 | — | Abdi | 35 |
| KE Kenya | #223 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Abdi | 80 |
| MA Morocco | #159 | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 908 | — | Abde | 48 |
| DZ Algeria | #139 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | listed | Abde | 35 |
| TZ Tanzania | #176 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | 3 | Abdi | 29 |
| SO Somalia | #2 | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 47 | Abdi | 52 |
| SE Sweden | #496 | 6,016as Abdi | 1 in 1.7K | 6K | Abdi | 72 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 5 | 1 in 3.5M | 51 | Abdi | 58 |
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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; the dz-kaggle-names register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Puntland PEC/TPEC local-council candidate lists. 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)
Abde 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.
In Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of abdō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
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 19 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 10 | #35,363 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 5 | #42,347 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 5 | #27,027 |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Abde mean, and where does it come from?
- servant Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Abde?
- A machine transcription gives /əbd/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Abde a male or female name?
- Abde 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 Abde have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 229 thousand people named Abdi in Ethiopia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Abde?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 5 people named Abde, about 1 in 3.5 million residents.
- How common is Abde compared with other names?
- In Ethiopia, Abde is the 99th most common given name of 31,392 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Abde?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/abdeThe 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, “Abde” — the 99th most common given name in Ethiopia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.