The Abdi surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 7,484 people carried this name — #4,738 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 39,400 people counted. That is up 258% from 2,091 in 2000.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
963 people named Abdi live in Switzerland.
They live in 20 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 365 people named Abdi live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Antwerp.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 276 people named Abdi.
Most of them — 174 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 27 départements, most often Essonne.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
8,153 people named Abdi are counted in Sweden, Norway and Finland.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Norway publishes only surnames with 200 or more bearers. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Statistics Norway (SSB, ssb.no), table 12891, 2025 — CC BY 4.0 · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
Who carried it
People named Abdi,
with a public archive behind them.
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Al-A’idh bin Muhsin bin Tha’labah 535–587 · poet
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Al-A’idh bin Muhsin bin Tha’labah 553–587 · poet
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Mona Kosar Abdi 1901– · journalist
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Mohammad Abdi 1923– · actor
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Reza Abdi 1931–2019 · actor
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Ahmed Ibrahim Abdi 1933–2024 · politician
Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Abdi.
- Abdallah 4,121 · U.S. census
- Abdelaziz 1,030 · U.S. census
- Abdelhadi 431 · U.S. census
- Abdelkader 412 · U.S. census
- Abdellatif 531 · U.S. census
- Abdelmalek 405 · U.S. census
- Abdon 634 · U.S. census
- Abdou 859 · U.S. census
- Abdul 1,978 · U.S. census
- Abecassis 167 · U.S. census
- Abed 1,580 · U.S. census
- Abegg 311 · U.S. census
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