Abdulla
Abdulla was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,192 among boys’ names; 530 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Abdulla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Abdulla?
#7,192 among boys’ names, 2025
Abdulla rose from #12,097 in 2015 to #7,192 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 2.6 to 6.4 per million.
22 babies in 2000, the peak
Abdulla peaked in 2000, when 22 boys were given it, #3,634 among boys’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,192 | 6.4 |
| 2024 | 12 | #6,830 | 7.0 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,518 | 7.6 |
| 2022 | 12 | #6,828 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,027 | 8.0 |
| 2020 | 12 | #6,617 | 7.0 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,403 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 7 | #9,673 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,549 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 15 | #5,788 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #12,097 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 15 | #5,729 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 12 | #6,603 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 7 | #9,710 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 16 | #5,432 | 8.4 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,141 | 4.7 |
| 2009 | 14 | #6,091 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 20 | #4,711 | 9.8 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,093 | 5.3 |
| 2006 | 11 | #6,902 | 5.4 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,222 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 8 | #7,830 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 20 | #4,039 | 10.3 |
| 2001 | 15 | #4,885 | 7.7 |
| 2000 | 22 | #3,634 | 11.2 |
| 1999 | 18 | #3,983 | 9.4 |
| 1998 | 20 | #3,593 | 10.5 |
| 1997 | 17 | #3,873 | 9.0 |
| 1996 | 13 | #4,606 | 6.9 |
| 1995 | 13 | #4,502 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,105 | 5.7 |
| 1993 | 13 | #4,441 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,121 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 11 | #4,754 | 5.4 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,376 | 4.4 |
| 1989 | 11 | #4,525 | 5.5 |
| 1988 | 9 | #4,781 | 4.7 |
| 1987 | 13 | #3,517 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 8 | #4,693 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,314 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 7 | #4,909 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,003 | 3.9 |
| 1978 | 10 | #3,613 | 6.1 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,125 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 5 | #5,585 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Abdulla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Abdulla has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Abdulla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Abdulla, and how old are they?
An estimated 517 Americans named Abdulla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 12 and 31. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,281 people named Abdulla (8 women and girls, 1,273 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 450 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Abdulla rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
How common is the spelling Abdulla?
Abdulla is a less common spelling of Abdullah: SSA has recorded 530 Abdulla and 9,383 Abdullah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 14,266 babies since 1880, Abdulla is the fourth most given (3.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 487 babies (2.3%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Abdulla
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 Abdulla and names like it
- Compare Abdulla and AbdullahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAbdulla peaked in 2000.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Abdulla since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Abdulla.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Abdulla alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.