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Abdallah

Masculine · “servant of God”

1976high 2018
#2258 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare62 boys in 2025

Abdallah is servant of God in Arabic — the Prophet's father's name, and the one tradition holds God loves best.

How old is the name Abdallah?

Abdallah first appears in US birth records in 1976 — 49 years ago. The typical Abdallah alive today was born around 2009, making them about 16 years old. About 1,600 people named Abdallah are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Abdallah most popular?

Abdallah peaked in 2018, reaching #2029 nationally. Today it ranks #2258, 229 places below that high. See the whole 2018 chart.

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Where it comes from

The story of Abdallah

The Prophet's father was Abdullah and died before his son was born. A hadith holds that the names dearest to God are Abdullah and Abd al-Rahman, which is why the abd- compounds are among the most-used names in the Muslim world. Abdallah is one of several spellings and is in current American use.

Meaning

servant of God

From the Arabic abd, 'servant' or 'slave', and Allah, 'God'. A hadith names Abdullah and Abd al-Rahman as the names most beloved to God. The abd construction is the standard Arabic theophoric form. The Arabic is documented.

How the name formed

  1. abd Allah
  2. Abdallah

Related forms: عبد الله · Abdullah · Abdullah

Pronouncing Abdallah

ab-DUL-lah

Three syllables, stress in the middle. The initial ayin of the Arabic has no English equivalent.

Nicknames for Abdallah

Moderate

AbdoA widely used Arabic affectionate form
AbdiAn alternative affectionate form, and a name in its own right in Somali
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

BOYS NAMED · 1976–202571360716219762025

US babies named Abdallah per year from 1976 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#20291970s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
1976
Most boys named
201871 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#2029reached in 2018
Change vs 2024
+34.8%62 in 2025, from 46
Abdallah sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2018, with 71 boys. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.

Abdallah in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • عبد الله in Arabic — transliteration
  • Abdullah in English — spelling variant
  • Abdullah in Turkish — spelling variant

Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, Ohio, California.

Abdallahs among us

1,600

people named Abdallah are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 boy in 27,550 born in 2025 was named Abdallah

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

Spellings of Abdallah

#2258
Abdallah on the 2025 chart
#857
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Abdallah went to 62 boys in 2025, but Abdalla is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 71, which makes it the 857th most-given boys’ name of the year — 1,401 places above the chart.

  • Abdallah62
  • Abdalla9

About 1 boy in 24,057 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 27,550 for Abdallah itself.

Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method

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Is it right for you

The Deroy test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Abdallah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Deroy climbed just as high around 1935, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Deroy's path sketches the road Abdallah is walking now.

40%chance Abdallah will feel “very 2010s” by 2040
Abdallah, aligned on its peakDeroy· peak 1935not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-40 yrs+70 yrsDeroy · #12367Abdallah today
Abdallah today is about where Deroy stood in 1942 — 7 years past a #2029-sized peak. By 1957, Deroy had settled around #3572.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Abdallah sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.

A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored

Where Abdallah is headed

19762030

US babies named Abdallah per year, 1976 to 2025, with a projection to 2030

Abdallah should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.

Steady-5% by 2030projected around #2,456 in 2030

Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.

A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.

Abdallah beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Abdallah in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Abdallahthis name62#2258Sloan62#2258Kurt62#2258Rustin62#2258Jackie62#2258

US boys given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • That a hadith names it among the names God loves best is a first-rate fact.
  • The servant-of-God meaning is transparent and complete.
  • Abdo and Abdi are two short forms, both in real use.
What to consider
  • Abdullah is the commoner English spelling.
  • The initial consonant is not reproducible in English.
  • It reads as specifically and strongly Muslim.

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Frequently asked

How many Abdallahs are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,600 people named Abdallah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Abdallah?
Abdallah is the most-used spelling in US records — 62 of the 71 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Abdalla.
How popular is the name Abdallah in 2025?
Abdallah ranks #2258 among US boy names in 2025, with 62 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Abdallah?
About 1 in every 27,550 US boys born in 2025 was named Abdallah — 62 in all.
Will my child share the name Abdallah with classmates?
Abdallah will almost certainly be the only one in school.

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Sloan#2258 · Kurt#2258 · Rustin#2258 · Jackie#2258 · Damion#2258 · Sahil#2258 · Clement#2258 · Genaro#2258

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