Abdi
given name · Latin script
Meaning: The name Abdi (Hebrew: עַבְדִּי, ʻAbdī) literally means 'my servant'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Abdi 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.
- ETEthiopia≈1 in 471(inferred from the name graph)
- KEKenya≈1 in 1.3K
- SESweden1 in 1.7K
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 Abdi 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 471 (inferred from the name graph)
≈230,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ethiopia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Abde in MA Morocco, DZ Algeria.
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)
The name Abdi (Hebrew: עַבְדִּי, ʻAbdī) literally means 'my servant'. It is widely considered to be a shortened form of a name like Obadiah (עֹבַדְיָה), meaning 'servant of Yahweh'.
Sources 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Abdi 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 | 6,016 | 1 in 1.7K | 6K | Abdi | 72 |
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; 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)
Abdi is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Abdi is a biblical Hebrew name meaning "my servant." It conveys a sense of humility and devotion, and while not common, it has a strong historical and religious significance.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
The name Abdi is likely a shortened form of Obadiah, meaning "servant of Yahweh," reflecting a common theme in Hebrew culture of emphasizing devotion and service to God.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
As a biblical name, Abdi is of Hebrew origin and means "my servant". It conveys a sense of devotion and service.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
In Hebrew, the name Abdi (עַבְדִּי) literally translates to "my servant".
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
In English, A male given name, variant of Abdul.
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Abdi İpekçib. 1929TRTurkish journalist (1929–1979)
- Abdi Hasan Awale Qeybdiidb. 1948SOSomali warlord
- Abdi Farah Shirdonb. 1958SOPrime Minister of Somalia
- Abdi Bileb. 1962SOSomali athletics competitor
- Abdi Nazemianb. 1976IRIranian-American author, screenwriter and producer
- Abdi Kassimb. 1984TZTanzanian footballer
- Abdi Nageeyeb. 1989NLDutch athletics competitor
- Abduwali Museb. 1990SOnot in their usual nameconvicted Somali hijacker
- Abdi Waiss Mouhyadinb. 1996DJDjiboutian middle-distance runner
- Taha Alib. 1998SEnot in their usual nameSwedish footballer (born 1998)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 82 sources across 44 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 6K | #548 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 1.1K | — |
Reference works 10
- 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)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
- 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
- Where does the name Abdi come from?
- The name Abdi (Hebrew: עַבְדִּי, ʻAbdī) literally means 'my servant'. It is widely considered to be a shortened form of a name like Obadiah (עֹבַדְיָה), meaning 'servant of Yahweh'. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- In which country does Abdi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 229 thousand people named Abdi in Ethiopia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled abdi.
- What does the name Abdi mean?
- Recorded meaning: The name Abdi (Hebrew: עַבְדִּי, ʻAbdī) literally means 'my servant'.
- Is Abdi a male or female name?
- Abdi 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 common is the name Abdi?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 6,016 people named Abdi, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Abdi compared with other names?
- In Ethiopia, Abdi is the 99th most common given name of 31,392 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/abdiThe 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, “Abdi” — the 99th most common given name in Ethiopia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.