Given name
Abdia
Abdia is a masculine given name from Biblical Hebrew. It is used in Italian.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2016. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Abdia through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 0 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 2016
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2016. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Abdia’s family of names
In Italian usage, Abdia has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Авдий.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Abdia
- Obadiahbiblical prophet associated with the Book of Obadiah586 BC–500 BC
- Obi ToppinAmerican basketball player (born 1998)
- Obie TrotterAmerican basketball playerborn 1984
- Obadiah of BertinoroItalian rabbi (c.1450–1509)1445–1500
- Obadiah ben Jacob SfornoItalian philosopher and rabbi1470–1549
- Obadiah GardnerAmerican politician (1852–1938)
- Obadiah JohnsonNigerian doctor1849–1920
- Obadiah GermanAmerican politician (1766-1842)
- Ovadia HedayaIsraeli rabbi (1889–1969)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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