Abdul
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Rahim Ld servant of the merciful one
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɑbdʊl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Abdul is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 2nd most common given name.
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 60(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 140
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 153
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)
- #313 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 300 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 60 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Rahim Ld servant of the merciful one.
Sources 1
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Abdul 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 | #2 | ≈1,700,000 est. | ≈1 in 140 | — | Abdul | 194 |
| BD Bangladesh | #5 | ≈1,100,000 est. | ≈1 in 153 | listed | Abdul | 168 |
| AF Afghanistan | #6 | ≈610,000 est. | ≈1 in 60 | 2 | Abdul | 49 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈240,000 est. | ≈1 in 889 | — | Abdul | 43 |
| MY Malaysia | #98 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 250 | — | Abdul | 70 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #5 | ≈55,000 est. | ≈1 in 181 | — | Abdul | 199 |
| US United States | — | 20,968 | 1 in 16K | 21K | Abdul | 300 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Abdul 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.
Rahman VAI servant of the merciful one.
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Ghani servant of the independent
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Majid At lak servant of the exalted one.
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Latif راللطرف slave of the subtle one.
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Qadir y slave of the powerful one.
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)
- Khan Abdul Wali Khanb. 1917PKSenior politician in Pakistan, President of Awami National Party (1917–2006)
- Abdul Razak Husseinb. 1922MYformer 2nd Prime Minister of Malaysia (1922-1976)
- Abdul Reza Pahlavib. 1924IRIranian royal (1924–2004)
- Abdul Koromab. 1943SLSierra Leonean judge
- Abdul Hamidb. 1944BDpresident of Bangladesh in 2013-2023
- Abdul Latif Rashidb. 1944IQpresident of Iraq since 2022
- Abdul Salisb. 1979GBBritish actor
- Abdul Rahim Ayewb. 1988GHGhanaian footballer
- Abdul Rahman Weissb. 1998GRSyrian–Greek association football player
- Abdul Fatawu Issahakb. 2004GHGhanaian association football player
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 124 sources across 64 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 21K | #1,556 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 84 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 53 | #1,556 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Abdul mean, and where does it come from?
- Rahim Ld servant of the merciful one. Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman.
- Is Abdul a male or female name?
- Abdul 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 Abdul have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 million people named Abdul in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled abdul.
- How do you pronounce Abdul?
- A machine transcription gives /ɑbdʊl/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What are other forms of the name Abdul?
- In the etymology graph, Abdoul is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Abdul?
- In the United States, the national register counted 20,968 people named Abdul in 2020, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
- How common is Abdul compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Abdul is the 2nd most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Abdul?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/abdulThe 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, “Abdul” — the 2nd most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.