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Abdullah

#763 in 2025Boys' name

Servant + God

Abdullah has been given to 9,383 babies in the U.S. since 1947. In 2025 it ranked #763 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 413 recorded.

Babies named Abdullah, 2025

1 in 9,840

Abdullah over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Abdullah: meaning, origin, and history

Servant + God

Arabic

What Abdullah means

Abdullah means “servant + God”, associated with عَبْد and الله.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Arabic عَبْدُ ٱللّٰه (ʕabdu llāh), from عَبْد (ʕabd, “servant”) + الله (allāh, “God”), literally “servant of God”.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Abdullah (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Abdullah is used in English, Albanian, Malay and Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

Abdullah comes through Arabic عَبْدُ ٱللّٰه.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Amatullah.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Abdullah is pronounced /ˌɑb.dʊlˈɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,383 boys were recorded with the name Abdullah between 1947 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 413 in 2014; its best national rank was #636 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #812 in 2020 to #763 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #653 in 2015 to #763 in 2025.

How common is Abdullah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 9,840
337 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 5,070
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#763
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,820 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Abdullah 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 1001%
School of 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,820 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Abdullah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Abdullahs were born

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

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
36.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
9,370
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 36.4% of all recorded uses (3,420).

Is Abdullah 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
+20
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+49
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−110
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.85×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
81.6%
Peak was 2014 (413)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#636
2014

Spellings of Abdullah

Abdullah is the most-used spelling, taking 70.0% of the 13,411 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Abdullah is used

Across 2016–2025, Abdullah was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 1,493 boys, against 1 in 4,820 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 50,000).

267 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 1,493
  2. 2Michigan1 in 1,786
  3. 3Illinois1 in 2,632
  4. 4Maryland1 in 2,703
  5. 5Virginia1 in 2,941
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 3,125
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 4,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 4,348

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.

Geographically, Abdullah is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 94% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Abdullah around the world

Where Abdullah 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
    #162
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1982–2025
    #278
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2001–2024
    #404
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    1996–2025
    #272
    in 2025
  • France
    1975–2025
    #568
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #308
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #399
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1985–2013
    #188
    in 2013

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.

Notable people named Abdullah

People whose public names include Abdullah, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Abdullah in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Abdullah. Linked forms have their own page here.

AbdullaAbdallahAbdullahiAvdylGabdulla

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Abdullah by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#763
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 49
Best rank ever
#636
2014
Peak year
2014
413 that year
First recorded
1947
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,383
Count in 2025
337

Names similar to Abdullah

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

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Names with a curve like Abdullah

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Abdullah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Abdullah

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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