Meaning not yet researched.
Abdullah: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 337 in 2025. Its best rank was #636 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #636 in 2014; #763 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Abdullah in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#763 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #636.
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Abdullah: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 337 boys in 2025. Peak: #636 in 2014 · most boys in one year: 413 (2014).
In 2025, 337 US boys were named Abdullah, making it the 763rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 20 places from #783 in 2024. That is 16 more than the 321 boys named Abdullah in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #636, reached in 2014. That year also had the most boys given the name: 413. For comparison, it was #653 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Abdullah in 65 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1947 with 6 babies. In all, 9,383 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,420 babies named Abdullah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,234 US boys were named Abdullah; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 406. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,068 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Abdullah ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #260 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Abdullahi (1,843 babies since 1880) and Abdallah (1,655 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Abdulla, Abdulahi and Abdalla 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Arabic. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Abdulla (530), Abdulahi (494), Abdalla (399), Abdulai (108), Abdulah (75), Abdula (39), Abduallah (32), Abdellah (24), Abdalah (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 Abdullah 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 33 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 74 | #260 | #348 |
| Michigan | 30 | #312 | #363 |
| Illinois | 21 | #485 | #486 |
| New Jersey | 15 | #488 | #342 |
| Maryland | 9 | #516 | #450 |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #556 | #511 |
| Virginia | 10 | #670 | #515 |
| Ohio | 12 | #710 | #532 |
| Arizona | 8 | #720 | — |
| Washington | 8 | #737 | #846 |
| Louisiana | 5 | #775 | #808 |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #792 | #616 |
| Minnesota | 5 | #807 | — |
| Indiana | 6 | #844 | — |
| Texas | 31 | #845 | #515 |
| California | 28 | #845 | #708 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,028 | #987 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,478 | #1,273 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 337 | #763 |
| 2024 | — | — | 321 | #783 |
| 2023 | — | — | 330 | #773 |
| 2022 | — | — | 319 | #791 |
| 2021 | — | — | 225 | #983 |
| 2020 | — | — | 286 | #812 |
| 2019 | — | — | 327 | #738 |
| 2018 | — | — | 351 | #691 |
| 2017 | — | — | 332 | #722 |
| 2016 | — | — | 406 | #650 |
| 2015 | — | — | 395 | #653 |
| 2014 | — | — | 413 | #636 |
| 2013 | — | — | 372 | #652 |
| 2012 | — | — | 305 | #748 |
| 2011 | — | — | 294 | #763 |
| 2010 | — | — | 225 | #904 |
| 2009 | — | — | 259 | #835 |
| 2008 | — | — | 210 | #954 |
| 2007 | — | — | 224 | #896 |
| 2006 | — | — | 219 | #893 |
| 2005 | — | — | 206 | #884 |
| 2004 | — | — | 192 | #899 |
| 2003 | — | — | 190 | #888 |
| 2002 | — | — | 230 | #753 |
| 2001 | — | — | 216 | #782 |
| 2000 | — | — | 182 | #869 |
| 1999 | — | — | 204 | #777 |
| 1998 | — | — | 162 | #895 |
| 1997 | — | — | 125 | #1,016 |
| 1996 | — | — | 131 | #969 |
| 1995 | — | — | 97 | #1,172 |
| 1994 | — | — | 97 | #1,153 |
| 1993 | — | — | 104 | #1,097 |
| 1992 | — | — | 73 | #1,321 |
| 1991 | — | — | 79 | #1,254 |
| 1990 | — | — | 73 | #1,294 |
| 1989 | — | — | 60 | #1,411 |
| 1988 | — | — | 46 | #1,576 |
| 1987 | — | — | 46 | #1,534 |
| 1986 | — | — | 55 | #1,320 |
| 1985 | — | — | 45 | #1,485 |
| 1984 | — | — | 44 | #1,444 |
| 1983 | — | — | 61 | #1,153 |
| 1982 | — | — | 58 | #1,217 |
| 1981 | — | — | 54 | #1,246 |
| 1980 | — | — | 49 | #1,341 |
| 1979 | — | — | 45 | #1,390 |
| 1978 | — | — | 47 | #1,326 |
| 1977 | — | — | 43 | #1,390 |
| 1976 | — | — | 38 | #1,453 |
| 1975 | — | — | 32 | #1,593 |
| 1974 | — | — | 27 | #1,747 |
| 1973 | — | — | 11 | #3,013 |
| 1972 | — | — | 19 | #2,080 |
| 1971 | — | — | 12 | #2,813 |
| 1970 | — | — | 15 | #2,399 |
| 1969 | — | — | 7 | #3,595 |
| 1968 | — | — | 12 | #2,445 |
| 1967 | — | — | 5 | #3,967 |
| 1966 | — | — | 10 | #2,627 |
| 1965 | — | — | 7 | #3,244 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,039 |
| 1962 | — | — | 6 | #3,641 |
| 1949 | — | — | 7 | #3,019 |
| 1947 | — | — | 6 | #3,370 |
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).