Abul
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Hasan father of the (the) Hasan
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/eɪbul/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Abul is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country, where it is the 17th most common given name.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 446(inferred from the name graph)
- KWKuwait≈1 in 2K
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 179 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 446 (inferred from the name graph)
≈360,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Hasan father of the (the) Hasan.
Sources 1
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Where in the world(measured from records)
Abul 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #17 | ≈360,000 est. | ≈1 in 446 | listed | Abul | 129 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #155 | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 5K | listed | Abul | 36 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Abul | 38 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Abul | 70 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #366 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Abul | 54 |
| OM Oman | #54 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Abul | 10 |
| KW Kuwait | #146 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Abul | 40 |
| US United States | — | 1,240 | 1 in 268K | 1.2K | Abul | 179 |
| QA Qatar | #221 | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Abul | 18 |
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: the muslim-baby-names-2000 register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)
Abul 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.
’Ala father of sublimity, the
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Fazl father of excellence.
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Masakin father of the poor
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Wafa father of loyalty.
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Bashar father of man.
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
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)
- Mirza Abolhassan Khan Ghaffarib. 1814IRnot in their usual nameIranian painter (1814-1866)
- Syed Abul Ala Maududib. 1903PKSouth Asian Islamic scholar, Founder of Jamaat-e-Islami (1903–1979)
- Abul Kashemb. 1920BDBangladeshi politician and writer (1920-1991)
- Abul Hasnat Muhammad Qamaruzzamanb. 1926BDBangladeshi politician
- Abul Barkatb. 1927PKBengali Language Movement activists (1927-1952)
- Abul Maal Abdul Muhithb. 1934BDBangladesh politician, economist (1934–2022)
- Abul Ahsanb. 1936BDdiplomat (1936-2008)
- Abul Kalam Abdul Momenb. 1947BDformer Bangladeshi Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Abul Momenb. 1948BDEkushey Padak recipient
- Abul Basharb. 1951INIndian writer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 38 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.2K | #10,646 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 16 | #10,646 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | Muslim Baby Names (Nishāt, 2000) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Abul mean, and where does it come from?
- Hasan father of the (the) Hasan. Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman.
- How do you pronounce Abul?
- A machine transcription gives /eɪbul/ (IPA) for Bangla.
- Is Abul a male or female name?
- Abul 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.
- In which country does Abul have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 364 thousand people named Abul in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled abul.
- How common is the name Abul?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,240 people named Abul in 2020, about 1 in 268 thousand residents.
- How common is Abul compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Abul is the 17th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Abul?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/abulThe 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, “Abul” — the 17th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.