Abdullahi
Masculine · “servant of God”
Abdullahi is servant of God, with an East African ending. The Arabic phrase is one of the most-given names in the Muslim world, and the final vowel tells you it arrived by way of Somalia or northern Nigeria rather than the Levant.
How old is the name Abdullahi?
Abdullahi first appears in US birth records in 1993 — 32 years ago. The typical Abdullahi is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,800 people named Abdullahi are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Abdullahi most popular?
Abdullahi peaked in 2013, reaching #1459 nationally. Today it ranks #2991, 1,532 places below that high. See the whole 2013 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Abd Allah to Abdullahi
The story of Abdullahi
Abdullah was the name of Muhammad's father and is described in tradition as among the names God loves best, which made it one of the most-given in the Islamic world. It traveled with Arabic into Somali, Hausa, Swahili, Malay and Urdu, and each language reshaped it a little. The Somali and Hausa Abdullahi is the standard form in those languages, and it reaches United States records with Somali and Nigerian families in particular.
Meaning
servant of God
Arabic abd means a servant or a slave, and Allah is God, so Abdullah is the servant of God — the construction is grammatical rather than metaphorical. The reading is documented and undisputed. The final -i in Abdullahi is a Somali and Hausa adaptation and does not change the meaning; the same habit gives Ibrahima and Mohamed their regional endings.
How the name formed
- Abd Allah
- Abdullah
- Abdullahi
Related forms: Abdullah · Cabdullahi · Abdullahi · Abdullah
Pronouncing Abdullahi
ab-dul-LAH-hee
Four syllables with the stress on the third. The doubled l is held in Arabic. English speakers usually reduce it to ab-DOO-lah-hee or drop the final syllable entirely.
Nicknames for Abdullahi
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1993
- Most boys named
- 2013113 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1459reached in 2013
- Change vs 2024
- −28.1%41 in 2025, from 57
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.
Abdullahi in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Abdullah in Arabic — related form
- Cabdullahi in Somali — spelling variant
- Abdullahi in Hausa — same name
- Abdullah in Turkish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Minnesota, Ohio, Washington.
Abdullahis among us
people named Abdullahi are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 41,660 born in 2025 was named Abdullahi
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Issiah test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Abdullahi's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Issiah climbed just as high around 1998, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Issiah's path sketches the road Abdullahi is walking now.
Abdullahi 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 Abdullahi is headed
Abdullahi should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
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.
Abdullahi beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Abdullahi in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented and grammatically transparent meaning, recognized across the Muslim world.
- Abdi is a ready short form with real currency in Somali communities.
- The final vowel marks its East and West African home clearly, which many families choose it for.
- Four syllables is long and it will be shortened by almost everyone outside the family.
- Abdullahi, Abdullah and Cabdullahi are the same name in three standard spellings.
- The short form Abdul is incomplete in Arabic and is used anyway in English-speaking settings.
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Frequently asked
- How many Abdullahis are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,800 people named Abdullahi are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Abdullahi in 2025?
- Abdullahi ranks #2991 among US boy names in 2025, with 41 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Abdullahi?
- About 1 in every 41,660 US boys born in 2025 was named Abdullahi — 41 in all.
- Will my child share the name Abdullahi with classmates?
- Abdullahi will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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