I always thought it was wierd to cut the Abdi-names in half considering the fact that there is a huge percentage of Somalis with the names.The name Abdi is exclusively somali....All other ethnicities add malik, qadir etc at the end of Abdi. The closest is west africans who use abdu
If the idea was to make things easier then it's a funny way of doing it, and furthermore
the name loses value when Abdi stands alone.