Abdellah
given name · Arabic · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Abdellah is a given name, most frequently recorded in Morocco, where it is the 19th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Arabic and French, written in the Latin script.
- MAMorocco1 in 391◐
- ESSpain1 in 5.9K
- DZAlgeria1 in 6.7K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈13K ●
- Sources
- 121 ●
- 1 in 5.9K ◐
across 10 countries
60K records
Official registry-verified
Spain
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MA Morocco | #19 | 39,313 | 37K rec. | — | listed | Abdellah | 121 |
| ES Spain | — | 8,460 | 5.6K rec. | 1 in 5.9K | 8.5K | Abdellah | 65 |
| DZ Algeria | #155 | 3,600 | 4.2K rec. | — | listed | Abdellah | 66 |
| FR France | — | 2,870△ | 24 rec. | 1 in 24K | 2.9K | — | 5 |
| BE Belgium | — | 1,118 | 1.2K rec. | — | 238 | Abdellah | 62 |
| IT Italy | — | 1,080 | 1.2K rec. | — | 1 | Abdellah | 41 |
| EG Egypt | — | 758 | 1K rec. | — | listed | Abdellah | 74 |
| RO Romania | #763 | 703 | 16 rec. | — | — | Abdellah | 6 |
| DE Germany | — | 628 | 683 rec. | — | 1 | Abdellah | 71 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 617 | 443 rec. | — | listed | Abdellah | 49 |
| US United States | — | 536 | 4.6K rec. | 1 in 621K | 536 | Abdellah | 118 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 445 | 577 rec. | 1 in 39K | 445 | Abdellah | 32 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Arabic54K35%
- French47K30%
- Spanish26K17%
- Catalan8.5K5%
- 6.4K4%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | 54,059 | 35% |
| French | 46,893 | 30% |
| Spanish | 25,587 | 17% |
| Catalan | 8,460 | 5% |
| 6,439 | 4% |
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●
Abdellah is also recorded in one other lexicon, 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)
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 |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 46 |
| 2000 | 45 |
| 2001 | 47 |
| 2002 | 46 |
| 2003 | 47 |
| 2004 | 51 |
| 2005 | 52 |
| 2006 | 54 |
| 2007 | 54 |
| 2008 | 59 |
| 2009 | 59 |
| 2010 | 62 |
| 2011 | 70 |
| 2012 | 68 |
| 2013 | 71 |
| 2014 | 78 |
| 2015 | 78 |
| 2016 | 81 |
| 2017 | 86 |
| 2018 | 88 |
| 2019 | 92 |
| 2020 | 90 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Abdellah Bounfourb. 1946MAMoroccan linguist
- Abdellah Haririb. 1949MAMoroccan painter
- Abdellah Mohiab. 1950DZAlgerian writer, poet and playwright (1950-2004)
- Abdellah Taïab. 1973MAMoroccan writer and journalist
- Abdellah Ben Youcefb. 1987DZcyclist
- Abdellah Zoubirb. 1991FRFrench footballer
- Abdellah Hidab. 1991MAMoroccan cyclist
- Abdellah Ouazaneb. 2009NLMoroccan association football player
- Abdellah BaidaMAMoroccan writer and literary critic
- Abdellah ChekayriMAMoroccan academic and researcher
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 42 sources across 25 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 99 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Abdellah?
- We estimate roughly 13 thousand people bear Abdellah (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Abdellah have the most bearers?
- Abdellah is most frequently recorded in Morocco, where it is most often spelled abdellah.
- How common is Abdellah compared with other names?
- In Morocco, Abdellah is the 19th most common given name of 44,905 given names recorded there.
- Is Abdellah a male or female name?
- Abdellah 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.
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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, “Abdellah” — the 19th most common given name in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.