Fun Facts About the Name Abida
- 56 babies named Abida: U.S. records list 56 babies given the name Abida from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Abida Mean?
Abida is an Arabic feminine name meaning "female worshipper" or "devout worshipper." Its Arabic form is ʿĀbidah (عابدة), the feminine active participle of ʿābid, "worshipper." The root ʿ-b-d carries the sense of serving and worshipping; related Arabic words include ʿabd ("servant") and ʿibādah ("worship"). The literal meaning is "one who worships," while the usual religious understanding is "worshipper of God."
Abida Name History & Origins
The name follows a common Arabic pattern in which participles are used as personal names. ʿĀbid is the masculine form, and the ending -ah makes ʿĀbidah feminine. Because the root ʿ-b-d belongs to the core vocabulary of worship and service in Arabic, the name has a clear religious sense without being a compound of a divine name. It is used in Arabic-speaking countries and in Muslim communities whose naming traditions draw on Arabic, including Urdu-speaking South Asia, where the spelling Abida is common.
How Popular is the Name Abida?
Abida has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2003. Its best rank was #12,189 in 2023.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | #15,255 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2023 | #12,189 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2018 | #12,475 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2016 | #12,889 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2013 | #14,603 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2008 | #15,421 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2005 | #16,474 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2003 | #12,419 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1998 | #12,440 | 6 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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How the Name Abida Shapes Your Personality and Life?
Powerful and complete. You are good intellectually and require several outlets for your energies. You are not a builder but a planner, and you want others to carry out your plans. You are bold, independent, inquisitive and interested in research. You know what you want and why you want it.
Position and social status is very important for you and you are always looking for way to improve your position in society. You have power and ability to chose your own destiny and achieve anything you want in life. You can expand in any direction according to your will and the set of values. You have passion for justice and belong to the position of authority. You have an inherent courage and endurance to accomplish "The Impossible Dream". With the power comes responsibility. You hold keys to the material world, but with this gift comes high spiritual responsibility to be fair and true to others. You are philosophical and mature, determined and intense with a desire to endure, often religious.
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