Abdoulaye

#2,480 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Abd Allah

Abdoulaye has been given to 966 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #2,480 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 54 recorded.

Babies named Abdoulaye, 2025

1 in 61,400

Abdoulaye over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Abdoulaye: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Abd Allah

Arabic

What Abdoulaye means

Abdoulaye is a form of Abd Allah.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Abdoulaye is used in French. Its origins include Arabic.

Abdoulaye comes through Arabic عَبْدُ اللّٰهِ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Abd Allah.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Abdoulaye is pronounced /ab.du.laj/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 966 boys were recorded with the name Abdoulaye between 1992 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 54 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,480 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,344 in 2020 to #2,480 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,148 in 2015 to #2,480 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 Abdoulaye?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 61,400; 54 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 31,600; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #2,480; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 42,555 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Abdoulaye 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 42,555 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Abdoulaye. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Abdoulayes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Abdoulaye was born before 2012 — so the typical Abdoulaye is around 13 today.

Median birth year: 2012; About 13 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 35.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 88.9%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 966; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 35.5% of all recorded uses (343).

Is Abdoulaye 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: +477; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +864; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +668; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.50×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 100.0%; Peak was 2025 (54)
Years since peak: Peaking now; At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 23.9% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,480; 2025

Where Abdoulaye is used

Across 1910–2025, Abdoulaye was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 80,803 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New York1 in 33,333
2Ohio1 in 100,000
3Georgia1 in —
4Maryland1 in —
5Pennsylvania1 in —

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. Abdoulaye has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Abdoulaye around the world

Where Abdoulaye 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
2001–2024
#5,120
in 2024
France
1964–2025
#228
in 2025
Canada
1992–2024
#1,698
in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Abdoulaye by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #2,480
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 864
Best rank ever: #2,480; 2025
Peak year: 2025; 54 that year
First recorded: 1992
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 966
Count in 2025: 54

Names similar to Abdoulaye

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

Sibling names for Abdoulaye

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

For a sister

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For a brother

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