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Abdelkader vs Abdiel

American parents have registered 7,715 Abdiels since 1880, against 5 Abdelkaders. Abdiel is still ahead, with 466 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Abdelkader against Abdiel, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Abdelkader Abdiel

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Abdiel has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1976 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2017, when Abdelkader had 5 and Abdiel had 376.

Side by side

  Abdelkader Abdiel
Total US births 57,715
Most in one year 5568
Babies in 2025 under 5466
Estimated living today 57,600
Median age today 88
Peak year 20172019
Best rank 12,246th boys504th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked607th
First recorded 20171976
Girls / boys 0 / 50 / 7,715

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Abdelkader Abdiel
France 10,2505
England and Wales 411

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Abdelkader and Abdiel.