Abdullahi

#2,991 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Abd Allah

Abdullahi has been given to 1,843 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #2,991 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 113 recorded.

Babies named Abdullahi, 2025

1 in 80,900

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Abdullahi: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Abd Allah

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Abdullahi means

Abdullahi is a form of Abd Allah.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Abdullahi is used in English and Hausa.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Abd Allah and Abdullah.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hausa, Abdullahi is pronounced /ʔàb.dùl.láː.hì/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,843 boys were recorded with the name Abdullahi between 1993 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 113 in 2013; its best national rank was #1,459 in 2013.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,094 in 2020 to #2,991 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,804 in 2015 to #2,991 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 Abdullahi?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 80,900; 41 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 41,700; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #2,991; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 56,047 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Abdullahi 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 56,047 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Abdullahi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Abdullahis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Abdullahi was born before 2013 — so the typical Abdullahi is around 12 today.

Median birth year: 2013; About 12 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 49.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 93.2%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 1,843; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 49.0% of all recorded uses (903).

Is Abdullahi 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: −573; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: −897; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: −1,187; Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago: 0.49×; Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak: 36.3%; Peak was 2013 (113)
Years since peak: 12; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 13.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,459; 2013

Spellings of Abdullahi

Abdullahi is not the most common spelling — Abdullah is, with 70.0% against Abdullahi's 13.7%.

Abdullah70.0%9,383
Abdullahi13.7%1,843
Abdallah12.3%1,655
Abdulla4.0%530

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 Abdullahi is used

Across 1910–2025, Abdullahi was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 4,545 boys, against 1 in 54,893 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

022 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Minnesota1 in 4,545
2Washington1 in 25,000
3Ohio1 in 33,333
4Maine1 in 100,000
5California1 in —
6Colorado1 in —
7Massachusetts1 in —
8Missouri1 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. Abdullahi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Abdullahi around the world

Where Abdullahi 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
#1,798
in 2025
France
2022–2023
#6,228
in 2023
Norway
1880–2024
#418
in 2024
Canada
1991–2024
#1,331
in 2024
South Australia
2008–2008
#726
in 2008

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

Abdullahi by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #2,991
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 897
Best rank ever: #1,459; 2013
Peak year: 2013; 113 that year
First recorded: 1993
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 1,843
Count in 2025: 41

Names similar to Abdullahi

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

Sibling names for Abdullahi

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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