Abdul

given name · Bangla · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Abdul is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 50th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Bangla and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Rahim Ld servant of the merciful one.

rarermore common
  • BDBangladesh1 in 111◐
  • AFAfghanistan1 in 140
  • PKPakistan1 in 141

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈33K ●

across 9 countries

#281 ●

of 16M given names

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
306 ●

2.2M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 704 ◐

Guyana

Spellings & scripts●

AbdulLatin · Bangla●3.1M records
АбдулCyrillic · Russian●22K records
আব্দুলBengali · Bangla●8.7K records
ᲐბდულGeorgian · Georgian●220 records

Locally spelled Абдул in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, UA Ukraine and Abdül in TR Türkiye.

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●

Rahim Ld servant of the merciful one.

Sources 1

  • Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Abdul is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#504,073,2371.7M rec.—136KAbdul238
BD Bangladesh#82,556,84333K rec.—listedAbdul160
PK Pakistan#21,330,62830K rec.——Abdul162
MY Malaysia#4563,88771K rec.——Abdul94
SA Saudi Arabia#2956,19214K rec.——Abdul173
GB United Kingdom#55236,06613K rec.—12Abdul152
TR Türkiye—33,76336K rec.——Abdül32
SY Syria#10828,69633K rec.—1Abdul49
RU Russia#81324,96825K rec.—#435Абдул126
AE United Arab Emirates#1624,20017K rec.——Abdul188
US United States—20,915108K rec.1 in 16K21KAbdul306
NG Nigeria#45316,87622K rec.——Abdul55

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Bangla3.1M21%
  • 3M20%
  • Hindi2.5M17%
  • English2.4M16%
  • Urdu1.7M11%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Bangla3,129,61721%
2,952,77420%
Hindi2,533,26317%
English2,351,65916%
Urdu1,716,51511%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Abdul is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name3.2M records spelled Abdul10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, United States, Malaysia

    Also written Abdül, Ạbdul, Ăbdu̇l, ِAbdul, Abdúl

  • English given name2.6M records spelled Abdul53 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bangladesh, India, United States, Malaysia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Abdül, Abduel, Ab'Dul, 'Abdul, Abd-Ul

  • Indonesian given name1.6M records spelled Abdul29 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Pakistan

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Abdul, Abdül, A'Bdul, Åbdul, Ãbdül

  • Spanish given name152K records spelled Abdul47 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, India, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Abdül, Abdúl, Abdûl, Abdu'L, Âbdűl

  • Pashto given name134K records spelled Abdul9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, United States

    Languages: Pashto, Persian, Tajik

    Also written Abdül, Абдул, Ábdül, ِAbdul

  • Swahili given name94K records spelled Abdul4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Nigeria, Tanzania, United States

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

    Also written Abdül

71 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Abdul is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Rahman VAI servant of the merciful one.

    as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman

  • Ghani servant of the independent

    as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman

  • Majid At lak servant of the exalted one.

    as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman

  • Latif ‫راللطرف‬ slave of the subtle one.

    as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman

  • Qadir y slave of the powerful one.

    as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman

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●

05K10K15K19001920194019601980200012K · 1993

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Abdul in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1898–2017
Yearrecords
18981
189932
19007
19071
19081
19092
19102
19111
19127
19134
191410
19156
191624
191743
191883
191946
1920139
192188
1922165
1923211
1924211
1925214
1926185
1927340
1928326
1929477
1930426
1931538
1932938
1933775
19341,085
19351,097
19361,109
19371,549
19381,442
19391,700
19402,061
19412,039
19422,921
19432,487
19443,073
19453,297
19463,348
19474,261
19483,441
19493,431
19504,421
19514,468
19525,323
19533,951
19545,032
19555,115
19564,974
19575,855
19585,765
19596,884
19605,995
19615,705
19627,480
19636,561
19646,749
19656,959
19666,685
19677,630
19686,711
19696,542
19707,426
19716,699
19727,542
19737,236
19746,666
19757,168
19767,572
19776,986
19787,454
19797,214
19806,709
19818,017
19829,496
19839,767
198410,137
198510,085
19868,670
198710,365
19889,833
19899,907
199010,017
199110,830
199211,270
199312,145
199410,214
19959,041
19964,626
19974,855
19983,093
1999338
200017
20016
20027
20033
20061
200712
20081,069
200932
2010508
2011496
2012269
2013243
20141,689
2015598
20166
20171

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 112 years between 1898–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1900195020002050Khan Abdul Wali Khan, b. 1917Abdul Razak Hussein, b. 1922Abdul Reza Pahlavi, b. 1924Abdul Koroma, b. 1943Abdul Hamid, b. 1944Abdul Latif Rashid, b. 1944Abdul Salis, b. 1979Abdul Rahim Ayew, b. 1988Abdul Rahman Weiss, b. 1998Abdul Fatawu Issahak, b. 2004

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 120 sources across 64 countries.

Official registers attesting Abdul
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—136K#153
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202021K#1,556
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—4.4K#663
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—3.1K#834
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20202.5K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.5K#12,111
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102K#14,950
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.6K#2,043
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.5K#17,153
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.3K#1,002
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—1.3K#285
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20251.3K—

Reference works 6

  • 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
  • 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 · 1,019 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Abdul?
We estimate roughly 33 thousand people bear Abdul (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Abdul have the most bearers?
Abdul is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled abdul.
How common is Abdul compared with other names?
In India, Abdul is the 50th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Abdul a male or female name?
Abdul 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 Abdul mean?
Recorded meaning: Rahim Ld servant of the merciful one.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Abdul” — the 50th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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