Abdoulaye
Abdoulaye was given to 54 boys in 2025, #2,480 among boys’ names; 966 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Abdoulaye by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Abdoulaye mean?
Wiktionary, French section
Abdoulaye is “a male given name from Arabic, widely used in Islamic West Africa”
A French spelling of a name ultimately derived from Arabic عَبْدُ اللّٰهِ (ʕabdu llāhi), i.e. Abdullah. Native spellings include Wolof Abdulaay and Pulaar Abdullaye etc.
/ab.du.laj/
Meaning: Wiktionary, French section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Abdoulaye?
#2,480 among boys’ names, 2025
Abdoulaye rose from #3,148 in 2015 to #2,480 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 18.8 to 31.6 per million.
54 babies in 2025, the peak
Abdoulaye peaked in 2025, when 54 boys were given it, #2,480 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 42 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 54 | #2,480 | 31.6 |
| 2024 | 42 | #2,957 | 24.4 |
| 2023 | 39 | #3,115 | 22.8 |
| 2022 | 32 | #3,531 | 18.3 |
| 2021 | 29 | #3,736 | 16.6 |
| 2020 | 33 | #3,344 | 19.1 |
| 2019 | 43 | #2,851 | 24.0 |
| 2018 | 35 | #3,237 | 19.3 |
| 2017 | 37 | #3,123 | 20.0 |
| 2016 | 29 | #3,680 | 15.3 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #3,148 | 18.8 |
| 2014 | 27 | #3,784 | 14.1 |
| 2013 | 38 | #2,953 | 20.1 |
| 2012 | 31 | #3,447 | 16.3 |
| 2011 | 42 | #2,797 | 22.1 |
| 2010 | 25 | #3,993 | 13.0 |
| 2009 | 36 | #3,161 | 18.1 |
| 2008 | 36 | #3,163 | 17.6 |
| 2007 | 47 | #2,602 | 22.6 |
| 2006 | 31 | #3,383 | 15.1 |
| 2005 | 27 | #3,524 | 13.5 |
| 2004 | 31 | #3,154 | 15.6 |
| 2003 | 29 | #3,182 | 14.7 |
| 2002 | 28 | #3,184 | 14.4 |
| 2001 | 22 | #3,716 | 11.3 |
| 2000 | 26 | #3,213 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 20 | #3,699 | 10.4 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,461 | 5.8 |
| 1997 | 11 | #5,282 | 5.8 |
| 1996 | 12 | #4,872 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,496 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 7 | #6,963 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 5 | #8,695 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 5 | #8,435 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Abdoulaye a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Abdoulaye has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Abdoulaye: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Abdoulaye, and how old are they?
An estimated 954 Americans named Abdoulaye and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,706 people named Abdoulaye (6 women and girls, 1,700 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 738 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Abdoulaye born?
The states with the most babies named Abdoulaye are New York, Ohio and Maryland, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Maryland is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 18 | #770 | 6.7× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,111 | 1.1× |
| Maryland | 6 | #704 | 0.3× |
Where Abdoulaye is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Abdoulaye is most over-represented in New York: since 1992 it was given 6.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Abdoulaye with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,091 babies since 1880, Abdoulaye is the most given (89% of them). In 2025 it was given to 54 of their 54 babies (100%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Abdoulaye
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Abdoulaye and names like it
- Compare Abdoulaye and AbdoulieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAbdoulaye peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Abdoulaye since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Abdoulaye: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Abdoulaye.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Abdoulaye alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.