'Abdullah

given name · Latin script

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

'Abdullah is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. In Brunei it is the 18th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Arabic عَبْد اللّٰه (ʕabd allāh).

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye1 in 299(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 2K
  • NONorway1 in 5.6K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Türkiye (measured from records)

274,084 people, 2025

Sources
189 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 299 (inferred from the name graph)

Türkiye

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Abdullah in TR Türkiye, US United States, BN Brunei.

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)

From Arabic عَبْد اللّٰه (ʕabd allāh).

Sources 7

  • Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
  • Wiktionary
  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Where in the world(measured from records)

'Abdullah 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.

Where 'Abdullah is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye—274,0841 in 299274KAbdullah39
US United States—12,5121 in 27K12KAbdullah139
SE Sweden—5,1131 in 2K5.1K—12
ES Spain—1,0051 in 50K1K—8
NO Norway—9821 in 5.6K3.3K—7
DK Denmark—8931 in 6.6K893——
FI Finland—6871 in 8.1K1.4K—3
BN Brunei#18———Abdullah40

274,084 people counted by TÜİK NIP — most used given names, 2025. 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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

'Abdullah is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name37 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Malaysia, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Abdullah, A'Bdullah, Abdüllah, Ábdullah, Ãbdûllãh

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written 'Abdullāh

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written 'Abdullāh

4 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

500100015002000Abu Bakr, b. 573Al-Mansur, b. 714As-Saffah, b. 722Al-Musta'sim, b. 1213Abdullah I of Jordan, b. 1882Ahmed Abdallah, b. 1919Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, b. 1939Abdullah Gül, b. 1950Abdallah Hamdok, b. 1956Abdullah Abdullah, b. 1960
  • 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. 1919KMnot in their usual namePresident 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. 1956SDnot in their usual nameSudanese 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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists 'Abdullah under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name 'Abdullah mean, and where does it come from?
From Arabic عَبْد اللّٰه (ʕabd allāh). Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman and TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and 5 other sources.
Is 'Abdullah a male or female name?
'Abdullah 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 'Abdullah have the most bearers?
In Türkiye, the national register counted about 274 thousand people named 'Abdullah, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled abdullah.
Where is 'Abdullah most common?
'Abdullah is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 299 people carrying it.
How common is the name 'Abdullah?
In Türkiye, the national register counted 274,084 people named 'Abdullah in 2025, about 1 in 299 residents.
How common is 'Abdullah compared with other names?
In Brunei, 'Abdullah is the 18th most common given name of 224 given names recorded there.

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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, “'Abdullah” — the 18th most common given name in Brunei. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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