Abda
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Derived from the Aramaic emphatic form of the Hebrew word 'ebed', meaning 'servant' or 'worshipper'; possibly a hypocoristic (shortened) form of Obadiah ('Servant of Yahweh')
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries
Abda is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia≈1 in 100K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 473K
- PKPakistan≈1 in 510Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 76 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 100K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Derived from the Aramaic emphatic form of the Hebrew word 'ebed', meaning 'servant' or 'worshipper'; possibly a hypocoristic (shortened) form of Obadiah ('Servant of Yahweh').
Cited for this meaning 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Where in the world
(measured from records)Abda counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Abda is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Acronym of American-British-Dutch-Australian Command, a committee of senior military officials during the expected Japanese invasion of Australia in 1942.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In wym, the tenth judge of Israel; Abdon (biblical character)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In shi, always, forever
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, apdzīvota vieta Libānā, Ziemeļlibānas muhāfazā, Vidusjūras piekrastē
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- A. J. Conyersb. 1944USnot in their usual nameAmerican theologian (1944-2004)
- Abda of HiraIQmonk of the Church of the East
- Abda of EdessaBishop in the Church of the East
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Abda mean, and where does it come from?
- Derived from the Aramaic emphatic form of the Hebrew word 'ebed', meaning 'servant' or 'worshipper'; possibly a hypocoristic (shortened) form of Obadiah ('Servant of Yahweh'). Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- Is Abda a male or female name?
- Abda is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Brazil (IBGE, 2022).
- Which countries have the most people named Abda?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Abda in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled abda. After it come Pakistan, Brazil, Bangladesh and Ghana; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Abda?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 448 people named Abda in 2022, about 1 in 473 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/abdaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Abda”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.