Abdullah

What Abdullah means

Means “servant of God”

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

Source: Wiktionary, “Abdullah” (revision 94638478), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Abdullah?

US: Falling: down from #653 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #146 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2014, when 413 boys got the name (#636 that year). First in the US records in 1947.

How common

• About 1 in 5,068 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 832 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,511 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 NY (0.88 per 1,000 boys), MI (0.75 per 1,000 boys), IL (0.42 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Abdullah is #763 in the US and #162 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 Abdullah 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

• Abdallah62 US · 25 E&W
• Abdulloh27 US
• Abdulla11 US · 4 E&W
• Abdalla9 US · 5 E&W

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 Abdullah

Boys

• Yousef#744Editor’s note Up from #788 in 2015 to #744 in 2025 in the US
• Ali#306“high, exalted”^*
• Hamza#541“lion”^*
• Mohamed#527Variant of Muhammad, meaning “praised, commendable, laudable”^*
• Ameer#980Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1969, with 14 babies
• Ibrahim#351Editor’s note Up from #436 in 2015 to #351 in 2025 in the US

For a sister

• Noor#659“light”^*
• Lylah#584Editor’s note Up from #629 in 2015 to #584 in 2025 in the US
• Maryam#351Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #52 vs #351 in 2025
• Leyla#611Editor’s note Up from #782 in 2015 to #611 in 2025 in the US
• Amirah#490Variant of Amira, meaning “princess”^*
• Zahra#538Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1973, with 8 babies

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 Abdullah’s. Rank is US 2025.