Abdul

What Abdul means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Abdul yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #177 vs #1,867 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Abdul?

US: Falling: down from #1406 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #190 in 2015, #177 now.

Biggest US share so far: 1975, when 157 boys got the name (#657 that year). First in the US records in 1930.

How common

• About 1 in 20,334 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 931 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,806 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in VA (0.3 per 1,000 boys), MD (0.22 per 1,000 boys), NY (0.17 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Abdul is #1867 in the US and #177 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Abdul were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Abdel14 US
• Abdoul12 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Abdul

Boys

• Malik#437Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1996, with 4,026 babies; 724 in 2025
• Ryan#99Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1985, with 29,905 babies; 3,532 in 2025
• Omar#260Editor’s note Down from #217 in 2015 to #260 in 2025 in the US
• Ahmad#669“praiseworthy”^*
• Khalid#940“immortal; glorious; eternal”^*
• Khalil#384“friend”^*

For a sister

• Sarah#90“masters, princes”^*
• Yasmin#955Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2006, with 1,018 babies; 269 in 2025
• Nadia#565“Nadia; tender”^*
• Aaliyah#101Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1976, with 18 babies
• Aliyah#263“ascent”^*
• Aleah#965Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #444 in 2015, #965 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Arabic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Abdul’s. Rank is US 2025.