Abdulla
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Muslim surname, from the Arabic personal name ’Abdullah, literally “servant of Allah”
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male
- Albania (INSTAT Albania): listed as male
- Kosovo (ASK Kosovo): listed as male
- Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 40 countries · latest register: INEC Special Gazette 2021, 2020
/abdulɫa/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Abdulla is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, 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.
- QAQatar≈1 in 180(inferred from the name graph)
- BHBahrain≈1 in 180
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 320
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 Abdulla 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 176 (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
Qatar, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled 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)Muslim surname, from the Arabic personal name ’Abdullah, literally “servant of Allah”
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Abdulla 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)Abdulla 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.
servant of God
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
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)- As-Saffahb. 722JOnot in their usual nameFirst Abbasid
- Abdullah I of Jordanb. 1882JORuler of Transjordan and Jordan from 1921 to 1951
- Abdullah Ahmad Badawib. 1939MYPrime Minister of Malaysia from 2003 to 2009
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)73 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 40 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Abdulla mean, and where does it come from?
- Muslim surname, from the Arabic personal name ’Abdullah, literally “servant of Allah” Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- What are other forms of the name Abdulla?
- In the etymology graph, Abdullah, Abdoulaye and Abdulah are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Abdulla?
- In Turkish /abdulɫa/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people named Abdulla?
- Mondonomo estimates about 362 thousand people named Abdullah in Saudi Arabia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Türkiye, Egypt, Tanzania and India; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Is Abdulla a male or female name?
- Abdulla is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male; Albania (INSTAT Albania): listed as male; Kosovo (ASK Kosovo): listed as male; Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- How common is the name Abdulla?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 274,084 people named Abdullah in 2025, about 1 in 299 residents.
- How common is Abdulla compared with other names?
- In Saudi Arabia, Abdulla is the 247th most common given name of 64,319 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Abdulla?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/abdullaThe 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, “Abdulla” — the 247th most common given name in Saudi Arabia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.