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Abdala

Boys' name

English equivalent of Abdullah

Abdala has been given to 6 babies in the U.S. since 2006. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2006, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Abdala, 2006

1 in 659,000

Abdala over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Abdala: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Abdullah

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Abdala means

Abdala is a English equivalent of Abdullah.

Origin, language, and formation

Abdala is used in Portuguese.

Abdala comes through Old Galician-Portuguese Abdalla and Arabic عَبْدُ الله.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Abdullah.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Abdala is pronounced /a.biˈda.lɐ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Abdala between 2006 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2006; its best national rank was #10,659 in 2006.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Abdala?

Abdala had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2006
1 in 659,000
6 of 3,956,166 births
Among boys only
1 in 343,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2006
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
457,035 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Abdala sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2006 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 457,035 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Abdala. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Abdalas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Abdala was born before 2006 — so the typical Abdala is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Abdala rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2006 (6)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#10,659
2006

Spellings of Abdala

Abdala is not the most common spelling — Abdul is, with 68.4% against Abdala's 0.06%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Abdala around the world

Where Abdala ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1957–1975
    #2,286
    in 1975

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Abdala by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,659
2006
Peak year
2006
6 that year
First recorded
2006
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Abdala

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Abdala

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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