Zabdiel is a first name for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Zabdiel is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 boys have been named Zabdiel. In the SmartGenius ranking, Zabdiel is #1,809 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Zabdiel.
Zabdiel is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Zabdiel cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #988 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2022. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Zabdiel, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Zabdiel seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Zabdiel was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The odds of having a man or boy named Zabdiel in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Zabdiel is registered in 15 states, among which are California, Florida, Illinois, Maryland or Massachusetts. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Zabdiel live in Texas, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 73,853 men and boys in Texas for their name before you meet one who answers with Zabdiel.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter Z is quite rare as a first letter for boys' names: only 2.4% of all common boys' names in the US begin with Z. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With seven letters, the name Zabdiel has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 2.4% of all boys' names begin with a Z, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the names that begin with Z, Zachary is the most common.
If your name is Zabdiel and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Zabdiel, you can simply say:
Zebra
Apple
Butterfly
Dinosaur
Igloo
Elephant
Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Zabdiel
Zabdiel
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
Z
A
B
D
I
E
L
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
Z
A
B
D
I
E
L
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Zabdiel sounds like this:
