Allah
surname · Latin script
Meaning: God; the One God, Creator, absolute divine power
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ælə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Allah is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 14th most common surname.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 445K
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 17K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 153 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
God; the One God, Creator, absolute divine power.
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #14 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Allah | 87 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 123K | listed | — | 1 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 865 | — | — |
| SD Sudan | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Allah | 8 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 201K | listed | Allah | 16 |
| US United States | — | 748 | 1 in 445K | 929 | Allah | 153 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Allah | 2 |
| MD Moldova | — | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 92K | 1 | — | — |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; e-services.md — living population register. 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)
Allah 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.
Prajurit Berserah Diri Pada Perintah Allah Yang Memiliki Kekuatan Berpergian Di
as a nameKitab Rangkaian Terbaik Nama-Nama Bayi Islami
Yang Kembali Kejalan Allah
as a nameKitab Rangkaian Terbaik Nama-Nama Bayi Islami
In English, Islamic name for God
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, God, in Islamic or Arabic contexts
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, alternative spelling of Alá
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)
- Alexis Allahb. 1961CIIvorian writer
- Abd Allah ibn al-Hakam al-Tujibiruler of Zaragoza
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 38 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 929 | #27,480 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 865 | #610 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 748 | #31,033 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 500 | #41,130 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Allah mean, and where does it come from?
- God; the One God, Creator, absolute divine power. Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Allah?
- A machine transcription gives /ælə/ (IPA) for Urdu.
- In which country does Allah have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Allah in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled allah.
- How common is the name Allah?
- In the United States, the national register counted 748 people named Allah in 2010, about 1 in 445 thousand residents.
- How common is Allah compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Allah is the 14th most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Allah?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/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, “Allah” — the 14th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.