How Many People Are Named Abednego?

103

people named Abednego are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 3,318,299 people in the US has this name

Based on 104 babies named Abednego in Social Security records from 2001 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#37,336

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#13,158

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Peak Year

2018

9 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Biblical
Pronunciation: ə-BED-ni-go (English)
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

Means "servant of Nebo" in Akkadian, Nebo being the Babylonian god of wisdom. In the Old Testament Abednego is the Babylonian name given to Azariah, one of the three men cast into a blazing furnace but saved from harm by God, as told in the Book of Daniel.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
0.0%
Male
100.0%

All of the babies given the name Abednego in the records were boys.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Abednego alive today is about 11 years old, and 100% are under 30. Half of them were between 4 and 17 in 2025.

Under 30 103
100%
30 to 59 0
0%
60 and over 0
0%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Abednego first appears in the records in 2001 and was given most often in 2018, to 9 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.

Babies given the name each year, 2001 to 2024

🏆 Rank History

Abednego has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #8,154, in 2018.

Boys
Rank in 2025Not ranked
Best rank#8,154 (2018)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#11,726 in the 2000s

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