Allah — boys' name

What the Data Says About Allah

The Social Security Administration has registered 175 babies named Allah between 1973 and 2023, spanning 51 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Allah currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1977, when 11 babies received it in a single year. Allah is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 16 additional births since 1916.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Allah performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 51 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Allah shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 42 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Allah in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Allah in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 175 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.