Asadullah
given name · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Asadullah is a given name, most frequently recorded in Afghanistan, where it is the 40th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and Pashto, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: lion of God.
- AFAfghanistan1 in 1.2K◐
- PKPakistan1 in 164K
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈588 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 79 ●
- 1 in 94K ◐
across 7 countries
recorded for this name
7.4K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Асадуллах in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, UA Ukraine and 2 more and Aşadullah in TM Turkmenistan.
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●
lion of God.
Sources 1
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | #40 | 1,813 | 1.8K rec. | — | 4 | Asadullah | 27 |
| PK Pakistan | — | 1,141 | 325 rec. | — | listed | Asadullah | 49 |
| IN India | — | 588 | 271 rec. | — | 1 | Asadullah | 28 |
| RU Russia | — | 579 | 673 rec. | — | #1,209 | Асадуллах | 58 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 521 | 570 rec. | — | — | Asadullah | 13 |
| US United States | — | 311 | 1.9K rec. | 1 in 1.1M | 311 | Asadullah | 79 |
| AU Australia | — | 282 | 346 rec. | — | — | Asadullah | 22 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 248 | 144 rec. | — | — | Asadullah | 30 |
| DE Germany | — | 210 | 222 rec. | — | listed | Asadullah | 41 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | 178 | 99 rec. | — | listed | Asadullah | 26 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | 114 | 114 rec. | 1 in 167K | 141 | Асадуллах | 9 |
| AT Austria | — | 114 | 28 rec. | — | 24 | Asadullah | 16 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hindi3.8K19%
- Pashto3.7K18%
- Urdu3.2K16%
- Indonesian1.7K9%
- English1.4K7%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 3,757 | 19% |
| Pashto | 3,683 | 18% |
| Urdu | 3,166 | 16% |
| Indonesian | 1,710 | 9% |
| English | 1,423 | 7% |
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●
Asadullah is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, lion of Allah. Title of Khalifa Ala
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, lion of Allah; title of Ali
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim 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 |
|---|---|
| 2006 | 12 |
| 2007 | 15 |
| 2008 | 21 |
| 2009 | 23 |
| 2010 | 29 |
| 2011 | 37 |
| 2012 | 38 |
| 2013 | 40 |
| 2014 | 44 |
| 2015 | 51 |
| 2016 | 56 |
| 2017 | 68 |
| 2018 | 82 |
| 2019 | 94 |
| 2020 | 94 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 15 years between 2006–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Asadullah Khalidb. 1970AFpolitician in Afghanistan
- Asadullah Saadatib. 1974AFHazara politician
- Asadullah Khanb. 1984AFAfghan cricketer and coach
- Asadullah Janb. 1985PKPakistani Guantanamo detainee
- Bilal KarimiAFnot in their usual nameDeputy Central Spokesperson of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
- Asadullah BhuttoPKPakistani politician
- Asadullah HamdamAFAfghan politician
- Asadullah IsfahaniIranian swordsmith, artisan shamshir
- Asadullah KirmaniIRIranian calligrapher
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 31 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 311 | #28,745 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 184 | #5,062 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 108 | #8,123 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 94 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 94 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 82 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 68 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 56 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 51 | #7,920 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 51 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 44 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 40 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 · 79 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Asadullah?
- We estimate roughly 588 people bear Asadullah (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Asadullah have the most bearers?
- Asadullah is most frequently recorded in Afghanistan, where it is most often spelled asadullah.
- How common is Asadullah compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Asadullah is the 40th most common given name of 22,039 given names recorded there.
- Is Asadullah a male or female name?
- Asadullah 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 Asadullah mean?
- Recorded meaning: lion of God.
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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, “Asadullah” — the 40th most common given name in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.