Abd-Allah
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Abd-Allah is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Saudi Arabia than in any other country. In Bahrain it is the most common given name. Recorded meaning: Arabic abd 'servant' + Allah 'God': 'servant of God'.
- TZTanzania≈1 in 510(inferred from the name graph)
- EGEgypt≈1 in 800
- TNTunisia≈1 in 1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Abd-Allah itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Saudi Arabia (inferred from the name graph)
- #492 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 285 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 514 (inferred from the name graph)
≈360,000 named Abdullah, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)7 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Abdulla in IN India, QA Qatar, BH Bahrain and 2 more, Abdallah in EG Egypt, TZ Tanzania and Abdullah in TR Türkiye.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Arabic abd 'servant' + Allah 'God': 'servant of God'.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Abd-Allah counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SA Saudi Arabia | #247 | ≈360,000 est. | ≈1 in 98 | — | Abdulla | 129 |
| TR Türkiye | #25 | 274,084as Abdullah | 1 in 299 | 274K | Abdullah | 152 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 804 | — | Abdallah | 160 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 514 | 15 | Abdallah | 62 |
| IN India | — | ≈92,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 1.7K | Abdulla | 125 |
| KW Kuwait | #114 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 142 | — | Abdulla | 84 |
| QA Qatar | #13 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 176 | — | Abdulla | 122 |
| BH Bahrain | #1 | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 176 | — | Abdulla | 124 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: TÜİK NIP — most used given names; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Abd-Allah 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.
In English, Alternative form of Abd Allah.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- 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. 1919KMPresident 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. 1956SDSudanese 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
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Abd-Allah mean, and where does it come from?
- Arabic abd 'servant' + Allah 'God': 'servant of God'. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios and Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon and 1 other source.
- In which country does Abd-Allah have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 362 thousand people named Abdullah in Saudi Arabia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Abd-Allah?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 274,084 people named Abdullah in 2025, about 1 in 299 residents.
- How common is Abd-Allah compared with other names?
- In Saudi Arabia, Abd-Allah is the 247th most common given name of 64,319 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/abd-allahThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Abd-Allah” — the 247th most common given name in Saudi Arabia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.