Abdul
Abdul was given to 84 boys in 2025, #1,867 among boys’ names; 6,528 Americans have been recorded with it since 1930 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,180 Americans named Abdul and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 15 and 42.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Abdul by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Abdul mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Abdul is “a male given name from Arabic used by Muslims.” Its etymology gives the senses “servant [of]” (عَبْد) and “the” (ال).
From Arabic عَبْد (ʕabd, “servant [of]”) + ال (al-, “the”).
/əbˈdʊl/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Abdul?
#1,867 among boys’ names, 2025
Abdul fell from #1,406 in 2015 to #1,867 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 63.6 to 49.2 per million.
157 babies in 1975, the peak
Abdul peaked in 1975, when 157 boys were given it, #657 among boys’ names. The 84 births of 2025 are 54% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 84 | #1,867 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 89 | #1,820 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 94 | #1,745 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 105 | #1,642 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 88 | #1,789 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 111 | #1,512 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 108 | #1,548 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 120 | #1,453 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 132 | #1,348 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 127 | #1,386 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (86)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 122 | #1,406 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 104 | #1,537 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 114 | #1,444 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 116 | #1,428 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 114 | #1,440 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 102 | #1,558 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 127 | #1,353 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 126 | #1,355 | 0.06 |
| 2007 | 124 | #1,350 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 122 | #1,339 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 123 | #1,265 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 112 | #1,314 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 153 | #1,028 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 145 | #1,051 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 137 | #1,052 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 135 | #1,059 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 140 | #1,000 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 142 | #968 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 153 | #898 | 0.08 |
| 1996 | 136 | #947 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 126 | #984 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 125 | #990 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 107 | #1,076 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 122 | #976 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 127 | #935 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 121 | #933 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 93 | #1,090 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 67 | #1,246 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 64 | #1,200 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 61 | #1,226 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 60 | #1,227 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 79 | #999 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 103 | #862 | 0.06 |
| 1982 | 91 | #941 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 95 | #920 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 104 | #871 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 128 | #765 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 106 | #831 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 147 | #701 | 0.09 |
| 1976 | 157 | #652 | 0.10 |
| 1975 | 157 | #657 | 0.10 |
| 1974 | 81 | #898 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 86 | #852 | 0.06 |
| 1972 | 98 | #808 | 0.06 |
| 1971 | 49 | #1,165 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 43 | #1,260 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 32 | #1,414 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 27 | #1,505 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 20 | #1,757 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 11 | #2,464 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 21 | #1,719 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 9 | #2,853 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 11 | #2,538 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 11 | #2,503 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 10 | #2,705 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 11 | #2,534 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,558 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 7 | #3,257 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 5 | #3,941 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 9 | #2,742 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 11 | #2,366 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 8 | #2,769 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 12 | #2,224 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 12 | #2,217 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 15 | #1,987 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,174 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,242 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 6 | #3,108 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,231 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 9 | #2,522 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 9 | #2,491 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,131 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 7 | #2,829 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,516 | under 0.01 |
| 1935 | 7 | #2,951 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,287 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Abdul a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Abdul has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 86 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Abdul: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Abdul, and how old are they?
6,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 6,528 Americans ever recorded as Abdul. The median Abdul alive today is 27 years old; half are between 15 and 42.
The 2020 Census counted 20,968 people named Abdul (53 women and girls, 20,915 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,732 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.7 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 21 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 94 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,140 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,500 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,040 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,390 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Abdul born?
The states with the most babies named Abdul are New York, New Jersey and California, with 54% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 1,362 | #914 | 3.1× |
| New Jersey | 576 | not ranked | 3.1× |
| California | 520 | #1,582 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 479 | #1,006 | 1.7× |
| Texas | 269 | #1,653 | 0.5× |
| Maryland | 249 | #809 | 2.2× |
| Virginia | 241 | #627 | 1.5× |
| Illinois | 195 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 144 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 134 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Abdul is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Abdul is most over-represented in New York: since 1930 it was given 3.1 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 Abdul 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 15,653 babies since 1880, Abdul is the second most given (42% of them). In 2025 it was given to 84 of their 576 babies (15%), again the second 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 Abdul
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 Abdul and names like it
- Compare Abdul and AbdielBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sAbdul peaked in 1975.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Abdul since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Abdul: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Abdul.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Abdul alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.