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Abdallah

#2,258 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Abd Allah

Abdallah has been given to 1,655 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #2,258 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 71 recorded.

Babies named Abdallah, 2025

1 in 53,500

Abdallah over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Abdallah: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Abd Allah

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Abdallah means

Abdallah is a alternate transcription of Abd Allah.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Abdallah → Abd Allah. The family’s meaning is “servant + God”, recorded in English with the source elements عَبْد and الله.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Abd Allah.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,655 boys were recorded with the name Abdallah between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 71 in 2018; its best national rank was #2,028 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,728 in 2020 to #2,258 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,327 in 2015 to #2,258 in 2025.

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 Abdallah?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 53,500
62 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 27,500
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,258
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
37,064 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Abdallah 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 2025 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 37,064 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Abdallah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Abdallahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Abdallah was born before 2009 — so the typical Abdallah is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
33.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
74.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,655
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 33.1% of all recorded uses (547).

Is Abdallah 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
+531
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+470
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+69
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.11×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
87.3%
Peak was 2018 (71)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,028
2018

Spellings of Abdallah

Abdallah is not the most common spelling — Abdullah is, with 70.0% against Abdallah's 12.3%.

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.

Where Abdallah is used

Across 2016–2025, Abdallah was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 42,578 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

16 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 16,667
  2. 2Ohio1 in 16,667
  3. 3Michigan1 in 25,000
  4. 4New York1 in 25,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 33,333
  6. 6California1 in 100,000
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 100,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Abdallah around the world

Where Abdallah 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,153
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2018–2019
    #701
    in 2019
  • Northern Ireland
    2001–2001
    #218
    in 2001
  • Ireland
    2012–2018
    #749
    in 2018
  • France
    1944–2025
    #365
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1900–2014
    #405
    in 2014
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,459
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1987–2010
    #494
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Abdallah by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,258
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 470
Best rank ever
#2,028
2018
Peak year
2018
71 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,655
Count in 2025
62

Names similar to Abdallah

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

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Sibling names for Abdallah

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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