A biblical Hebrew name meaning "my father is majesty" or "father of praise."
Abiud is a Hebrew biblical name usually understood to mean my father is majesty or father of praise. It belongs to the old scriptural naming world, where names often carried a compact theological sentence inside them, and that gives it a solemn, antique weight even in modern use.
As a name, Abiud feels rare and quietly formal. It is not widely used outside biblical reference, which makes it sound learned rather than fashionable. Part of its appeal is that it preserves the texture of ancient Hebrew naming without needing to be familiar in everyday life. It has the clarity of a name from scripture and the distinctiveness of something almost never heard.