Abdallah
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Abdallah is a given name, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 22nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: servant/worshipper of Allah; variant spelling of Abdullah.
- BHBahrain1 in 61◐
- DZAlgeria1 in 162
- TJTajikistan1 in 177
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈306K ●
- #693 ●
- 5 ●
- Sources
- 269 ●
- 1 in 299 ◐
across 5 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
3.2M records
Official registry-verified
Türkiye
Spellings & scripts●
8 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Abdulla in IN India, BD Bangladesh, AE United Arab Emirates and 5 more, Abdullah in TR Türkiye, SY Syria, IQ Iraq and 2 more, Абдулла in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan and Abdollah in SE Sweden, IR Iran.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
servant/worshipper of Allah; variant spelling of Abdullah.
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #22 | 274,084 | 2.4M rec. | 1 in 299 | 274K | Abdullah | 133 |
| IN India | — | 204,395 | 117K rec. | — | 1.7K | Abdulla | 109 |
| DZ Algeria | #40 | 150,096 | 4.3K rec. | — | — | Abdallah | 65 |
| RU Russia | #280 | 121,586 | 84K rec. | — | #143 | Абдулла | 122 |
| BD Bangladesh | #271 | 115,665 | 2.2K rec. | — | — | Abdulla | 80 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | #6 | 64,078 | 3.4K rec. | — | 18K | Abdulloh | 31 |
| SY Syria | #57 | 46,202 | 71K rec. | — | — | Abdullah | 36 |
| EG Egypt | #115 | 38,595 | 29K rec. | — | — | Abdallah | 150 |
| TH Thailand | #545 | 35,639 | 29K rec. | — | #804,674 | อับดุลเลาะ | 75 |
| TJ Tajikistan | #2 | 23,662 | 769 rec. | — | — | Абдулло | 16 |
| TZ Tanzania | #30 | 21,047 | 23K rec. | — | 15 | Abdallah | 56 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #188 | 17,558 | 3.5K rec. | — | — | Абдулла | 18 |
Roughly 274K people in Türkiye bear this name (about 1 in 299). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English162K42%
- Arabic78K20%
- French74K19%
- Swahili19K5%
- Spanish6.6K2%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 161,878 | 42% |
| Arabic | 78,229 | 20% |
| French | 74,280 | 19% |
| Swahili | 19,082 | 5% |
| Spanish | 6,559 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Abdallah is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Alternative form of Abd Allah.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Arabic, variant of Abdullah, 'servant of God'
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In German, Arabic ʿabd Allāh 'servant of God'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Spanish, Arabic abd 'servant' + Allah 'God': 'servant of God'.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1976 | 6 |
| 1978 | 7 |
| 1979 | 6 |
| 1980 | 6 |
| 1981 | 8 |
| 1982 | 12 |
| 1983 | 5 |
| 1984 | 7 |
| 1985 | 12 |
| 1986 | 16 |
| 1987 | 10 |
| 1988 | 13 |
| 1989 | 9 |
| 1990 | 18 |
| 1991 | 15 |
| 1992 | 22 |
| 1993 | 19 |
| 1994 | 19 |
| 1995 | 30 |
| 1996 | 32 |
| 1997 | 33 |
| 1998 | 39 |
| 1999 | 37 |
| 2000 | 42 |
| 2001 | 43 |
| 2002 | 39 |
| 2003 | 53 |
| 2004 | 45 |
| 2005 | 40 |
| 2006 | 57 |
| 2007 | 52 |
| 2008 | 40 |
| 2009 | 39 |
| 2010 | 50 |
| 2011 | 52 |
| 2012 | 44 |
| 2013 | 48 |
| 2014 | 52 |
| 2015 | 56 |
| 2016 | 60 |
| 2017 | 55 |
| 2018 | 71 |
| 2019 | 59 |
| 2020 | 45 |
| 2021 | 37 |
| 2022 | 44 |
| 2023 | 43 |
| 2024 | 46 |
| 2025 | 62 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 49 years between 1976–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Abu Bakrb. 573SAnot in their usual name1st Rashidun Caliph and father-in-law of Muhammad
- Al-Mansurb. 714JOnot in their usual namesecond Abbasid Caliph (714-775)
- As-Saffahb. 722JOnot in their usual nameFirst Abbasid
- Al-Musta'simb. 1213IQnot in their usual name37th and last Abbasid Caliph (r. 1242–1258)
- Abdullah I of Jordanb. 1882JOnot in their usual nameRuler of Transjordan and Jordan from 1921 to 1951
- Ahmed Abdallahb. 1919KMPresident of the Comoros from 1978 to 1989
- Abdullah Ahmad Badawib. 1939MYnot in their usual namePrime Minister of Malaysia from 2003 to 2009
- Abdullah Gülb. 1950TRnot in their usual name11th President of Turkey (born 1950)
- Abdallah Hamdokb. 1956SDSudanese public administrator and former prime minister
- Abdullah Abdullahb. 1960AFnot in their usual nameAfghan politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 86 sources across 46 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 6.6K | #308 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.5K | #5,996 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.1K | #8,032 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.9K | #10,221 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.7K | #6,012 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.3K | #1,404 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 961 | #2,915 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 809 | #1,476 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 720 | #12,305 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 683 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 664 | #2,097 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 622 | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 508 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Abdallah?
- We estimate roughly 306 thousand people bear Abdallah (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Abdallah have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 274 thousand people bear Abdallah in Türkiye, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled abdullah.
- How common is Abdallah compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Abdallah is the 22nd most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
- Is Abdallah a male or female name?
- Abdallah is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Abdallah mean?
- Recorded meaning: servant/worshipper of Allah; variant spelling of Abdullah.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Abdallah” — the 22nd most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.