Abdullah
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Arabic: ‘servant of God’; classic Arabic Muslim name
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/abdʊɫɫˈah/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Abdullah is a given name 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.
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 105(inferred from the name graph)
- KWKuwait≈1 in 169
- TRTürkiye1 in 299
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 Abdullah 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)
- Sources
- 285 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 105 (inferred from the name graph)
≈330,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Saudi Arabia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
7 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Abdulla in BH Bahrain, SA Saudi Arabia, KW Kuwait, Abdallah in EG Egypt, TZ Tanzania and Abdulloh in ID Indonesia.
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”
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
How Abdullah is read(measured from records)
Abdullah is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Turkish70%
Tanrı’nın kulu.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Arabic14%
‘servant of God’; classic Arabic Muslim name.
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
servant/worshipper of Allah; a very common Muslim given name.
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SA Saudi Arabia | #247 | ≈330,000 est. | ≈1 in 105 | — | Abdulla | 129 |
| TR Türkiye | #25 | 274,084 | 1 in 299 | 274K | Abdullah | 152 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 469 | 15 | Abdallah | 62 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 937 | — | Abdallah | 160 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈72,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | listed | Abdulloh | 97 |
| SY Syria | #108 | ≈62,000 est. | ≈1 in 312 | — | Abdullah | 36 |
| KW Kuwait | #114 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 169 | — | Abdulla | 84 |
| BH Bahrain | #1 | ≈8,900 est. | ≈1 in 170 | — | 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; 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)
Abdullah is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Muslim surname, from the Arabic personal name ’Abdullah, literally “servant of Allah”
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Servant of God
as a nameThe book of African names
In Swedish, Abdullah är ett arabiskt namn, sammansatt av → Abd- och Allah. Även formerna Abdalla, Abdallah och → Abdullahi förekommer.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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)
- 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. 1919KMPresident 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. 1956SDSudanese 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).
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 105 sources across 53 countries.
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
- 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
- Where does the name Abdullah 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 does the name Abdullah mean?
- In Arabic, ‘servant of God’; classic Arabic Muslim name.
- 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?
- Mondonomo estimates about 326 thousand people named Abdullah in Saudi Arabia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled abdulla.
- How do you pronounce Abdullah?
- A machine transcription gives /abdʊɫɫˈah/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What are other forms of the name Abdullah?
- In the etymology graph, Abdulla, Abdoulaye and Abdulah are forms of the same name in other languages.
- 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 Saudi Arabia, Abdullah is the 247th most common given name of 64,319 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/abdullahThe 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, “Abdullah” — the 247th most common given name in Saudi Arabia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.