Abdoul
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Abdoul is a given name, most frequently recorded in Burkina Faso, where it is the most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and French (Côte d’Ivoire), written in the Latin script.
- BFBurkina Faso1 in 109◐
- SNSenegal1 in 272
- CMCameroon1 in 1.4K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3.1K ●
- Sources
- 228 ●
- 1 in 39K ◐
across 8 countries
42K records
Official registry-verified
France
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 4 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BF Burkina Faso | #1 | 3,164 | 3.3K rec. | — | — | Abdoul | 28 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | #239 | 2,882 | 3.1K rec. | — | 154 | Abdoul | 30 |
| SN Senegal | #31 | 2,476 | 928 rec. | — | 28 | Abdoul | 54 |
| FR France | — | 1,730 | 21K rec. | 1 in 39K | 1.7K | Abdoul | 228 |
| CM Cameroon | #54 | 1,442 | 1.9K rec. | — | — | Abdoul | 20 |
| US United States | — | 1,091 | 3.8K rec. | 1 in 305K | 1.1K | Abdoul | 182 |
| BE Belgium | — | 845 | 961 rec. | — | 12 | Abdoul | 45 |
| TG Togo | #6 | 759 | 319 rec. | — | 2 | Abdoul | 20 |
| ML Mali | #25 | 589 | 640 rec. | — | 6 | Abdoul | 26 |
| LY Libya | #266 | 376 | 513 rec. | — | — | Abdoul | 8 |
| NE Niger | #2 | 279 | 701 rec. | — | 7 | Abdoul | 29 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 182 | 489 rec. | — | — | Abdoul | 21 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French39K57%
- French (Côte d’Ivoire)8.6K13%
- Arabic4.8K7%
- English4.1K6%
- Spanish2.6K4%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 38,521 | 57% |
| French (Côte d’Ivoire) | 8,630 | 13% |
| Arabic | 4,799 | 7% |
| English | 4,117 | 6% |
| Spanish | 2,562 | 4% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1928 | 5 |
| 1929 | 5 |
| 1931 | 5 |
| 1932 | 5 |
| 1934 | 5 |
| 1939 | 5 |
| 1940 | 5 |
| 1941 | 5 |
| 1942 | 5 |
| 1945 | 5 |
| 1947 | 5 |
| 1948 | 5 |
| 1949 | 5 |
| 1950 | 5 |
| 1951 | 5 |
| 1952 | 5 |
| 1953 | 5 |
| 1955 | 5 |
| 1956 | 5 |
| 1957 | 5 |
| 1958 | 5 |
| 1960 | 5 |
| 1961 | 5 |
| 1963 | 5 |
| 1964 | 5 |
| 1966 | 5 |
| 1968 | 5 |
| 1969 | 5 |
| 1970 | 5 |
| 1976 | 5 |
| 1977 | 5 |
| 1978 | 5 |
| 1979 | 5 |
| 1980 | 5 |
| 1984 | 5 |
| 1985 | 5 |
| 1987 | 5 |
| 1991 | 5 |
| 1996 | 5 |
| 1997 | 5 |
| 1998 | 5 |
| 2002 | 5 |
| 2003 | 5 |
| 2010 | 5 |
| 2020 | 5 |
RE INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 974 (Réunion) — 45 years between 1928–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Abdoul Kabèlè Camarab. 1950GNGuinean politician
- Abdoul Mbayeb. 1953SNSenegalese prime minister
- Abdoul Aziz Mbayeb. 1954SNFrench-Senegalese politician
- Abdoul-Gafar Mamahb. 1985TGTogolese footballer
- Abdoul Aziz Nikiémab. 1988BFBurkinabè cyclist
- Abdoul Camarab. 1990GNGuinean and French footballer
- Abdoul Bab. 1994MRMauritanian and French association football player
- Kader Bambab. 1994FRnot in their usual nameFrench footballer
- Abdoul Aziz Kaboréb. 1994BFBurkinabé association football player
- Abdoul Tapsobab. 2001BFburkinabé footballer
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 57 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1.7K | #468 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.1K | #11,639 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 178 | #9,883 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 168 | #4,776 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 154 | #2,655 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 103 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 85 | #9,567 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 52 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 40 | #51,160 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 38 | #7,941 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 32 | #15,443 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 31 | #13,730 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name 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 · 205 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Abdoul?
- We estimate roughly 3.1 thousand people bear Abdoul (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Abdoul have the most bearers?
- Abdoul is most frequently recorded in Burkina Faso, where it is most often spelled abdoul.
- How common is Abdoul compared with other names?
- In Burkina Faso, Abdoul is the most common given name of 3,081 given names recorded there.
- Is Abdoul a male or female name?
- Abdoul 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, “Abdoul” — the most common given name in Burkina Faso. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.