Abdullah
Abdullah was given to 337 boys in 2025, #763 among boys’ names; 9,383 Americans have been recorded with it since 1947 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,200 Americans named Abdullah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Abdullah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Abdullah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Abdullah is “a male given name from Arabic, feminine equivalent Amatullah; variant forms 'Abd Allah, Abd Allah, Abd' Ulah, Abd-Allah, Abdalah, Abdallah, Abdellah, Abdollah, Abdu'llah, Abdulah, Abdulla, ʻAbd Allāh.” Its etymology gives the senses “servant” (عَبْد) and “God” (الله) and “servant of God” (literally).
Borrowed from Arabic عَبْدُ ٱللّٰه (ʕabdu llāh), from عَبْد (ʕabd, “servant”) + الله (allāh, “God”), literally “servant of God”.
/ˌɑb.dʊlˈɑ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Abdullah?
#763 among boys’ names, 2025
Abdullah fell from #653 in 2015 to #763 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.21 to 0.20 per 1,000.
413 babies in 2014, the peak
Abdullah peaked in 2014, when 413 boys were given it, #636 among boys’ names. The 337 births of 2025 are 82% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 337 | #763 | 0.20 |
| 2024 | 321 | #783 | 0.19 |
| 2023 | 330 | #773 | 0.19 |
| 2022 | 319 | #791 | 0.18 |
| 2021 | 225 | #983 | 0.13 |
| 2020 | 286 | #812 | 0.17 |
| 2019 | 327 | #738 | 0.18 |
| 2018 | 351 | #691 | 0.19 |
| 2017 | 332 | #722 | 0.18 |
| 2016 | 406 | #650 | 0.21 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 395 | #653 | 0.21 |
| 2014 | 413 | #636 | 0.22 |
| 2013 | 372 | #652 | 0.20 |
| 2012 | 305 | #748 | 0.16 |
| 2011 | 294 | #763 | 0.15 |
| 2010 | 225 | #904 | 0.12 |
| 2009 | 259 | #835 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 210 | #954 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 224 | #896 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 219 | #893 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 206 | #884 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 192 | #898 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 190 | #887 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 230 | #753 | 0.12 |
| 2001 | 216 | #781 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 182 | #867 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 204 | #775 | 0.11 |
| 1998 | 162 | #894 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 125 | #1,014 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 131 | #967 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 97 | #1,168 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 97 | #1,149 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 104 | #1,093 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 73 | #1,316 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 79 | #1,248 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 73 | #1,289 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 60 | #1,406 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 46 | #1,571 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 46 | #1,532 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 55 | #1,319 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 45 | #1,484 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 44 | #1,443 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 61 | #1,153 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 58 | #1,216 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 54 | #1,246 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 49 | #1,341 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 45 | #1,390 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 47 | #1,326 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 43 | #1,390 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 38 | #1,453 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 32 | #1,592 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 27 | #1,747 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 11 | #3,011 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 19 | #2,080 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 12 | #2,811 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 15 | #2,398 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,594 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 12 | #2,444 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #3,966 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 10 | #2,626 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,243 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,038 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,640 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,018 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 6 | #3,369 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Abdullah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Abdullah has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 65 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Abdullah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Abdullah, and how old are they?
9,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 9,383 Americans ever recorded as Abdullah. The median Abdullah alive today is 14 years old; half are between 8 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 12,512 people named Abdullah (27 women and girls, 12,485 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,510 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 16 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 342 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,070 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,390 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,380 |
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 Abdullah born?
The states with the most babies named Abdullah are New York, Texas and Michigan, with 46% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 74 | #260 | 2.5× |
| Texas | 31 | #845 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 30 | #312 | 1.8× |
| California | 28 | #845 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 21 | #485 | 1.4× |
| New Jersey | 15 | #488 | 1.9× |
| Ohio | 12 | #710 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #792 | 1.1× |
| Virginia | 10 | #670 | 1.6× |
| Maryland | 9 | #516 | 1.3× |
Where Abdullah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Abdullah is most over-represented in New York: since 1947 it was given 2.5 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 Abdullah 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 14,685 babies since 1880, Abdullah is the most given (64% of them). In 2025 it was given to 337 of their 487 babies (69%), 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 Abdullah
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 Abdullah and names like it
- Compare Abdullah and AbdullahiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAbdullah peaked in 2014.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Abdullah since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Abdullah: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Abdullah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Abdullah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.