Meaning not yet researched.
Abdul: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 84 in 2025. Its best rank was #652 in 1976.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #652 in 1976; #1,867 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Abdul in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,867 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1976, at #652.
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Abdul: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 84 boys in 2025. Peak: #652 in 1976 · most boys in one year: 157 (1976).
In 2025, 84 US boys were named Abdul, making it the 1,867th most common boys’ name of the year, down 47 places from #1,820 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 89 boys named Abdul in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #652, reached in 1976. That year also had the most boys given the name: 157. For comparison, it was #1,406 in 2015 and #2,770 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Abdul in 86 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1930 with 7 babies. In all, 6,528 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,304 babies named Abdul.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,058 US boys were named Abdul; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 132. In 2025 that was about 1 in 20,334 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Abdul ranked highest in Virginia in 2025, at #627 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Abdiel (7,715 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Abdule are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Abdule (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Abdul in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 11 | #627 | #465 |
| Maryland | 5 | #809 | #636 |
| New York | 14 | #914 | #571 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,006 | #1,159 |
| California | 10 | #1,582 | #1,122 |
| Texas | 10 | #1,653 | #1,534 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 84 | #1,867 |
| 2024 | — | — | 89 | #1,820 |
| 2023 | — | — | 94 | #1,745 |
| 2022 | — | — | 105 | #1,642 |
| 2021 | — | — | 88 | #1,789 |
| 2020 | — | — | 111 | #1,512 |
| 2019 | — | — | 108 | #1,548 |
| 2018 | — | — | 120 | #1,453 |
| 2017 | — | — | 132 | #1,348 |
| 2016 | — | — | 127 | #1,386 |
| 2015 | — | — | 122 | #1,406 |
| 2014 | — | — | 104 | #1,537 |
| 2013 | — | — | 114 | #1,444 |
| 2012 | — | — | 116 | #1,428 |
| 2011 | — | — | 114 | #1,440 |
| 2010 | — | — | 102 | #1,558 |
| 2009 | — | — | 127 | #1,353 |
| 2008 | — | — | 126 | #1,355 |
| 2007 | — | — | 124 | #1,350 |
| 2006 | — | — | 122 | #1,339 |
| 2005 | — | — | 123 | #1,266 |
| 2004 | — | — | 112 | #1,316 |
| 2003 | — | — | 153 | #1,029 |
| 2002 | — | — | 145 | #1,052 |
| 2001 | — | — | 137 | #1,053 |
| 2000 | — | — | 135 | #1,061 |
| 1999 | — | — | 140 | #1,002 |
| 1998 | — | — | 142 | #970 |
| 1997 | — | — | 153 | #900 |
| 1996 | — | — | 136 | #949 |
| 1995 | — | — | 126 | #987 |
| 1994 | — | — | 125 | #994 |
| 1993 | — | — | 107 | #1,080 |
| 1992 | — | — | 122 | #979 |
| 1991 | — | — | 127 | #939 |
| 1990 | — | — | 121 | #937 |
| 1989 | — | — | 93 | #1,094 |
| 1988 | — | — | 67 | #1,249 |
| 1987 | — | — | 64 | #1,202 |
| 1986 | — | — | 61 | #1,227 |
| 1985 | — | — | 60 | #1,228 |
| 1984 | — | — | 79 | #1,000 |
| 1983 | — | — | 103 | #862 |
| 1982 | — | — | 91 | #941 |
| 1981 | — | — | 95 | #920 |
| 1980 | — | — | 104 | #871 |
| 1979 | — | — | 128 | #765 |
| 1978 | — | — | 106 | #831 |
| 1977 | — | — | 147 | #701 |
| 1976 | — | — | 157 | #652 |
| 1975 | — | — | 157 | #657 |
| 1974 | — | — | 81 | #898 |
| 1973 | — | — | 86 | #852 |
| 1972 | — | — | 98 | #808 |
| 1971 | — | — | 49 | #1,165 |
| 1970 | — | — | 43 | #1,260 |
| 1969 | — | — | 32 | #1,414 |
| 1968 | — | — | 27 | #1,506 |
| 1967 | — | — | 20 | #1,758 |
| 1966 | — | — | 11 | #2,465 |
| 1965 | — | — | 21 | #1,720 |
| 1964 | — | — | 9 | #2,854 |
| 1963 | — | — | 11 | #2,539 |
| 1962 | — | — | 11 | #2,504 |
| 1961 | — | — | 10 | #2,706 |
| 1960 | — | — | 11 | #2,535 |
| 1958 | — | — | 6 | #3,559 |
| 1957 | — | — | 7 | #3,258 |
| 1956 | — | — | 5 | #3,942 |
| 1954 | — | — | 9 | #2,743 |
| 1951 | — | — | 11 | #2,367 |
| 1950 | — | — | 8 | #2,770 |
| 1949 | — | — | 12 | #2,225 |
| 1948 | — | — | 12 | #2,218 |
| 1947 | — | — | 15 | #1,988 |
| 1946 | — | — | 6 | #3,175 |
| 1945 | — | — | 10 | #2,243 |
| 1944 | — | — | 6 | #3,109 |
| 1943 | — | — | 6 | #3,232 |
| 1942 | — | — | 9 | #2,523 |
| 1941 | — | — | 9 | #2,491 |
| 1940 | — | — | 6 | #3,131 |
| 1939 | — | — | 7 | #2,829 |
| 1937 | — | — | 5 | #3,518 |
| 1935 | — | — | 7 | #2,951 |
| 1930 | — | — | 7 | #3,289 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).