Abdullah

given name · Turkish · Latin script

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

Abdullah 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 Turkish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Muslim surname, from the Arabic personal name ’Abdullah, literally “servant of Allah”.

rarermore common
  • 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 ●

across 5 countries

#693 ●

of 16M given names

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
269 ●

3.2M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 299 ◐

Türkiye

Spellings & scripts●

AbdullahLatin · Turkish●2.4M records
АбдуллаCyrillic · Uzbek●54K records
อับดุลเลาะThai · Thai●19K records
ᲐბდულაGeorgian · Georgian●497 records
আবদুল্লBengali · Bangla●1 records

9 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Abdallah in DZ Algeria, FR France, US United States and 6 more, Abdulla in IN India, BD Bangladesh, AE United Arab Emirates and 5 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●

Muslim surname, from the Arabic personal name ’Abdullah, literally “servant of Allah”

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Abdullah is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#22274,0842.4M rec.1 in 299274KAbdullah133
IN India—204,395117K rec.—1.7KAbdulla109
DZ Algeria#40150,0964.3K rec.——Abdallah65
RU Russia#280121,58684K rec.—#143Абдулла122
BD Bangladesh#271115,6652.2K rec.——Abdulla80
UZ Uzbekistan#664,0783.4K rec.—18KAbdulloh31
SY Syria#5746,20271K rec.——Abdullah36
EG Egypt#11538,59529K rec.——Abdallah150
TH Thailand#54535,63929K rec.—#804,674อับดุลเลาะ75
TJ Tajikistan#223,662769 rec.——Абдулло16
TZ Tanzania#3021,04723K rec.—15Abdallah56
KG Kyrgyzstan#18817,5583.5K rec.——Абдулла18

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●

  • Turkish2.4M42%
  • English1.1M19%
  • Arabic891K16%
  • Bangla546K10%
  • Kurdish279K5%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Turkish2,389,10742%
English1,061,88419%
Arabic890,75216%
Bangla546,42310%
Kurdish279,3395%

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◐

Abdullah is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name1.5M records spelled Abdullah37 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, United States

    Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

    Also written A'Bdullah, Abdüllah, Ãbdûllãh, Ábdullah, Abdul-Lah

  • Arabic given name1.3M records spelled Abdullah30 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen, Türkiye

    Languages: Arabic, Amharic

    Also written A'Bdullah, Abdüllah, Äbdülläh, 'Abdu'llah, Abd-Ullah

  • Bangla given name982K records spelled Abdullah107 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Türkiye

    Languages: Bangla, Hindi, Urdu

    Also written আব্দুল্লাহ, Aabdullaah, আবদুল্লাহ, Abdallah, আব্দুল্লাহ্

  • Indonesian given name952K records spelled Abdullah8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, Türkiye, India

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Abdullah', 'Abdullah, A'Bdullah

  • a separate given name53K records spelled Abdullah4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, Türkiye

    Also written Abdullāh, Abdulláh, Abdullâh

  • Spanish given name37K records spelled Abdullah37 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Türkiye, Spain, Philippines

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written A'Bdullah, Âbdùllǟh, Ábdúlláh, ِAbdullah, Äbdülläh

  • French given name30K records spelled Abdullah10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, Türkiye, Belgium

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Abdüllah, Abdùllah, Âbdûllâh, Ąbdullăh, Abdûllah

66 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●

Abdullah 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.

  • In Arabic, ‘servant of God’; classic Arabic Muslim name.

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

  • In Arabic, servant/worshipper of Allah; a very common Muslim given name.

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

  • In Turkish, Tanrı’nın kulu.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

  • Servant of God

    as a nameThe book of African names

  • In Swedish, Abdullah är ett arabiskt namn, sammansatt av → Abd- och Allah. Även formerna Abdalla, Abdallah och → Abdullahi förekommer.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

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●

010203019001950200021 · 2014

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Abdullah in ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search), Kosovo, 1867–2025
Yearrecords
18671
18761
18881
18961
18981
19001
19011
19031
19072
19091
19101
19121
19131
19142
19171
19192
19202
19222
19231
19244
19252
19275
19282
19295
19304
19316
19324
19335
19348
19358
19366
19378
193812
19397
19409
194110
194212
19436
19444
19456
19468
194711
19488
194911
19509
19516
19527
195311
19547
195512
19568
195711
19588
19597
19607
196110
196216
19634
196410
196511
19669
19678
196810
19697
19709
19716
19723
19739
19747
19757
197612
19777
197812
19798
19808
19817
198210
19835
19846
19857
19865
19874
19886
19893
19906
19914
19927
19935
19949
19953
19962
19976
19988
19998
20005
200110
20024
20035
20048
20051
200611
200711
200815
200911
201010
201112
201213
201315
201421
201515
201615
201715
201816
201912
202014
202113
202213
20236
202411
202513

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 120 years between 1867–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

500100015002000Abu Bakr, b. 573Al-Mansur, b. 714As-Saffah, b. 722Al-Musta'sim, b. 1213Abdullah I of Jordan, b. 1882Ahmed Abdallah, b. 1919Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, b. 1939Abdullah Gül, b. 1950Abdallah Hamdok, b. 1956Abdullah Abdullah, b. 1960
  • 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. 1882JORuler of Transjordan and Jordan from 1921 to 1951
  • Ahmed Abdallahb. 1919KMnot in their usual namePresident of the Comoros from 1978 to 1989
  • Abdullah Ahmad Badawib. 1939MYPrime Minister of Malaysia from 2003 to 2009
  • Abdullah Gülb. 1950TR11th President of Turkey (born 1950)
  • Abdallah Hamdokb. 1956SDnot in their usual nameSudanese public administrator and former prime minister
  • Abdullah Abdullahb. 1960AFAfghan 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 102 sources across 53 countries.

Official registers attesting Abdullah
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
TR TürkiyeTÜİK NIP — most used given names2025274K#14
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202012K#2,134
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202011K#3,166
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020108.3K#4,272
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020005.9K#5,460
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—5.1K#605
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—3.3K#806
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20202.7K—
MY Malaysiadata.gov.my — Baby Name Popularity Dashboard (HTML-embedded JSON)—2.6K—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—1.8K#581
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20241.7K#742
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—1.4K#1,274

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 · 962 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Abdullah?
We estimate roughly 306 thousand people bear Abdullah (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does Abdullah have the most bearers?
We estimate about 274 thousand people bear Abdullah in Türkiye, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled abdullah.
How common is Abdullah compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Abdullah is the 22nd most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
Is Abdullah a male or female name?
Abdullah 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 Abdullah mean?
Recorded meaning: Muslim surname, from the Arabic personal name ’Abdullah, literally “servant of Allah”
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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, “Abdullah” — the 22nd most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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