Abdullahi
given name · Swahili · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Abdullahi is a given name, most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is the 14th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Swahili and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Abdullahi är ett arabiskt namn, sammansatt av → Abd- och Allah.
- NGNigeria1 in 297◐
- SESweden1 in 2.3K
- KEKenya1 in 3.1K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈9.2K ●
- Sources
- 196 ●
- 1 in 2.3K ◐
across 10 countries
315K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Meaning & origin●
Abdullahi är ett arabiskt namn, sammansatt av → Abd- och Allah.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 9 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #14 | 245,286 | 279K rec. | — | — | Abdullahi | 109 |
| KE Kenya | #360 | 9,249 | 9.5K rec. | — | 4 | Abdullahi | 58 |
| SE Sweden | #712 | 4,379 | 4.9K rec. | 1 in 2.3K | 4.4K | Abdullahi | 53 |
| US United States | — | 3,092 | 13K rec. | 1 in 108K | 4.8K | Abdullahi | 196 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 1,828 | 2.9K rec. | — | — | Abdullahi | 18 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,437 | 974 rec. | — | listed | Abdullahi | 87 |
| FI Finland | — | 687△ | 78 rec. | 1 in 8.1K | 1K | — | 19 |
| NO Norway | — | 609 | 657 rec. | 1 in 9K | 1.9K | Abdullahi | 33 |
| SO Somalia | #5 | 342 | 1.7K rec. | — | 162K | Abdullahi | 50 |
| DK Denmark | — | 263 | — | 1 in 22K | 344 | — | — |
| CA Canada | — | 205 | 410 rec. | — | 8 | Abdullahi | 61 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 114 | 266 rec. | 1 in 152K | 144 | Abdullahi | 31 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Swahili271K49%
- English186K33%
- Arabic29K5%
- Indonesian13K2%
- Hindi10K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Swahili | 271,087 | 49% |
| English | 185,640 | 33% |
| Arabic | 28,860 | 5% |
| Indonesian | 13,186 | 2% |
| Hindi | 10,053 | 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●
Abdullahi 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.
servant of God
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
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 |
|---|---|
| 1954 | 4 |
| 1955 | 5 |
| 1960 | 5 |
| 1961 | 4 |
| 1962 | 6 |
| 1963 | 9 |
| 1964 | 4 |
| 1965 | 11 |
| 1966 | 5 |
| 1967 | 7 |
| 1968 | 13 |
| 1969 | 7 |
| 1970 | 13 |
| 1972 | 7 |
| 1973 | 5 |
| 1974 | 4 |
| 1975 | 11 |
| 1976 | 4 |
| 1977 | 5 |
| 1978 | 8 |
| 1979 | 5 |
| 1980 | 16 |
| 1981 | 7 |
| 1982 | 7 |
| 1983 | 8 |
| 1984 | 11 |
| 1985 | 18 |
| 1986 | 15 |
| 1987 | 11 |
| 1988 | 17 |
| 1989 | 11 |
| 1990 | 10 |
| 1991 | 6 |
| 1992 | 13 |
| 1993 | 6 |
| 1994 | 10 |
| 1995 | 10 |
| 1996 | 12 |
| 1997 | 11 |
| 1998 | 20 |
| 1999 | 17 |
| 2000 | 16 |
| 2001 | 6 |
| 2002 | 15 |
| 2003 | 8 |
| 2004 | 10 |
| 2005 | 12 |
| 2006 | 15 |
| 2007 | 15 |
| 2008 | 8 |
| 2009 | 16 |
| 2010 | 9 |
| 2011 | 9 |
| 2012 | 6 |
| 2013 | 12 |
| 2014 | 6 |
| 2015 | 12 |
| 2016 | 6 |
| 2017 | 13 |
| 2018 | 9 |
| 2019 | 10 |
| 2020 | 6 |
| 2023 | 6 |
| 2024 | 6 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 64 years between 1954–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Abdullahi dan Fodiob. 1767NGSultan of Gwandu
- Abdullahi Qarsheb. 1924TZMusician, poet and playwright (1924–1994)
- Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmedb. 1934SOformer president of Puntland and President of Somalia (dead 2012)
- Abdullahi Ahmed Irrob. 1937SOSomali General and military professor
- Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'imb. 1946SDProfessor of Law at Emory University School of Law
- Abdullahi Umar Gandujeb. 1949NGNigerian politician
- Abdullahi Ahmed Jamab. 1951SOSomali politician
- Abdullahi Suleb. 1959NGNigerian politician
- Ilhan Omarb. 1982USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician (born 1982)
- Shehu Abdullahib. 1993NGNigerian association football player
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 48 sources across 22 countries.
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 · 326 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Abdullahi?
- We estimate roughly 9.2 thousand people bear Abdullahi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Abdullahi have the most bearers?
- Abdullahi is most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is most often spelled abdullahi.
- How common is Abdullahi compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Abdullahi is the 14th most common given name of 146,224 given names recorded there.
- Is Abdullahi a male or female name?
- Abdullahi 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 Abdullahi mean?
- Recorded meaning: Abdullahi är ett arabiskt namn, sammansatt av → Abd- och Allah.
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Abdullahi” — the 14th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.