Given name & surname
Abdu
Abdu is a masculine given name from Arabic. It is used in Hausa.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Hausa usage, Abdu is a short form of ABDULLAHI. In Hausa usage, Abdu is a short form of Abdulƙadir.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1973. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Abdu through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 32
- 32 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1974
- 10 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 boys is 6 in 2012. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 1974. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 457 as a first name in 2020; 600 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Abdu’s family of names
In Hausa usage, Abdu is a short form of ABDULLAHI. In Russian usage, Abdu as a surname is a transliteration of Абду. In Hausa usage, Abdu is a short form of Abdulƙadir.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Abdu
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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