Given name & surname
Abed
“servant, worshipper”
Abed is a masculine given name from Arabic, meaning “servant, worshipper.”
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Arabic عَابِد (“servant, worshipper”); its root is Arabic ع ب د.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1979. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Abed through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 219
- 219 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1995
- 13 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 8 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 13 in 1995. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 770 as a first name in 2020; 2,337 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.
Abed’s family of names
In Bengali usage, Abed is a Roman-alphabet rendering of আবেদ.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Abed
- Abed AzrieSyrian singerborn 1945
- Abed AbdiIsraeli painter and graphic artistborn 1942
- Abed AbestIranian director, writer, and actorborn 1987
- Abed Elrahim Abu ZakrraSudanese poet (1943–1989)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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