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Abdias vs Abdulrahman

American parents have registered 2,947 Abdulrahmans since 1880, against 919 Abdiases. Abdulrahman is still ahead, with 109 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Abdias against Abdulrahman, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Abdias Abdulrahman

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

Of the 48 years in which either name was published, Abdulrahman for 46 years and Abdias for 2 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Abdias Abdulrahman
Total US births 9192,947
Most in one year 49155
Babies in 2025 43109
Estimated living today 9102,900
Median age today 1112
Peak year 20162016
Best rank 2,551st boys1,216th boys
Rank in 2025 2,884th1,564th
First recorded 19751978
Girls / boys 0 / 9190 / 2,947

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.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

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

Country Abdias Abdulrahman
France 4585

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: Abdias and Abdulrahman.