Abdulsalam

given name · Arabic · Latin script

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

Abdulsalam is a given name, most frequently recorded in Nigeria. In Libya it is the 27th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Arabic and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • LYLibya1 in 955◐
  • SYSyria1 in 8.3K
  • NGNigeria1 in 9.9K

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

≈804 ●

across 8 countries

Sources
95 ●

27K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 28K ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Abdul-Salam in GH Ghana and Abdulşalam in TM Turkmenistan.

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.

Where Abdulsalam is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NG Nigeria#9007,3618.5K rec.——Abdulsalam60
SY Syria#9773,9994.7K rec.——Abdulsalam26
TR Türkiye—3,0043.5K rec.——Abdulsalam20
IQ Iraq—2,3832.4K rec.——Abdulsalam25
LY Libya#271,8521.9K rec.——Abdulsalam37
SA Saudi Arabia#9051,342767 rec.——Abdulsalam95
IN India—5990 rec.—39Abdulsalam23
YE Yemen#332589589 rec.——Abdulsalam41
US United States—3841.4K rec.1 in 866K384Abdulsalam94
SE Sweden—369△114 rec.1 in 28K369—10
PH Philippines—3171.1K rec.——Abdulsalam14
DK Denmark—20—1 in 293K20——

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

Languages●

  • Arabic22K32%
  • English13K19%
  • Hindi9.3K13%
  • Swahili5.8K8%
  • Urdu3.8K5%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Arabic22,35632%
English13,14219%
Hindi9,29313%
Swahili5,8318%
Urdu3,7915%

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◐

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

  • English given name38K records spelled Abdulsalam12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, United States, India, Germany

    Languages: English, Swahili, German

    Also written Abdul-Salam, Abdul Salam, Äbdulsäläm, Abdülsalam

  • Hindi given name16K records spelled Abdulsalam6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, Nigeria, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Abdul-Salam, Abdülsalam, Abdulşalam

  • a separate given name4.3K records spelled Abdulsalam2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Nigeria, Ethiopia

    Also written Abdul-Salam

  • Turkish given name3.4K records spelled Abdulsalam10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, Iraq, Nigeria

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani, Uzbek

    Also written Abdülsalam, Abdulşalam, Abdul-Salam

  • Indonesian given name2.4K records spelled Abdulsalam4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, India, Türkiye, Philippines

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Abdul-Salam

  • Spanish given name1.5K records spelled Abdulsalam6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, Philippines, United States, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Abdul-Salam, Abdul Salam, Ãbdulsalam

  • Thai given name803 records spelled Abdulsalam12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, Nigeria, India, Syria

    Also written อับดุลสลาม, อับดุลสาลาม, อับดุลซาลาม, อับดูลสาลาม, Abdul-Salam

45 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.

Over time●

0204060194019601980200047 · 1966

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Abdulsalam in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1928–2014
Yearrecords
19281
19291
19302
19313
19322
19334
19344
19354
19366
19375
19382
19397
19408
19414
19429
19436
19448
194511
194617
194710
19486
194922
195014
195113
195217
195318
195421
195521
195625
195729
195828
195927
196028
196129
196241
196344
196441
196531
196647
196736
196842
196945
197035
197140
197238
197335
197436
197545
197643
197741
197828
197926
198023
198126
198234
198326
198432
198525
198616
198712
198811
198911
199015
199111
19922
19936
19945
19954
19961
19971
19981
20101
20131
20141

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 74 years between 1928–2014. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

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 34 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Abdulsalam
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020384#24,726
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—369#3,405
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020324#66,015
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—285#1,440
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020145—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2019144—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010143#120,901
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2018143—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2017137—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2016129—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—128#6,519
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201594—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 · 161 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Abdulsalam?
We estimate roughly 804 people bear Abdulsalam (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Abdulsalam have the most bearers?
Abdulsalam is most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is most often spelled abdulsalam.
How common is Abdulsalam compared with other names?
In Nigeria, Abdulsalam is the 900th most common given name of 146,224 given names recorded there.
Is Abdulsalam a male or female name?
Abdulsalam 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

● 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, “Abdulsalam” — the 900th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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