Abdul
Abdul is a boy's name that peaked in 1975, when it was the 657th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 1,867th. About 6,200 Abduls are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 26.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Abdul
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 6,528
- Estimated living today
- 6,200
- Median age today
- 26
- Peak year
- 1975
- Best rank
- 657th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,867th
- First recorded
- 1930
How old the living Abduls are
born that year still alive today
Of the 6,528 babies given the name since 1930, about 6,200 are alive — 95 in every hundred. Roughly 2,000 of them are children and 90 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1999 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Arabic
From Arabic عَبْد (“servant [of]”) + ال (“the”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Abduls
- Abdul Hamid II (1842–1918)34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
- Abdul Hamid I (1725–1789)27th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
- Abdul Hamid (born 1944)president of Bangladesh in 2013-2023
- Abdul Qadir Gilani (1078–1166)Sunni Muslim preacher, mystic and jurist
- Abdul Ghani Baradar (born 1963)co-founder and political leader of the Afghan Taliban
- Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890–1988)Pashtun independence activist against British rule in India
- Abdul Salam Arif (1921–1966)Iraqi politician
- Abdul Rahman Arif (1916–2007)President of Iraq from 1966 to 1968
People named Abdul with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Abdul is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Abdul is most concentrated in New Jersey (4.6×), New York (3.9×), Maryland (3.6×), Virginia (2.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1975
The most popular boys’ names the year Abdul peaked:
Abdul elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Abdul | 8,200 | 163rd |
| Norway boys | Abdul | 1,130 | 180th |
| France boys | Abdul | 555 | 1,246th |
| Scotland boys | Abdul | 392 | 245th |
| Belgium boys | Abdul | 367 | 496th |
| Ireland boys | Abdul | 233 | 138th |
| Switzerland boys | Abdul | 55 | 920th |
| Poland boys | Abdul | 46 birth registrations | 358th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Abdul | 4 | 264th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Abdul: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Abdul | 44 | 0.004% | 771st |
| French boys | Switzerland | Abdul | 11 | 0.003% | 653rd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Abdul: rank by region
In 2025, Abdul was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Abdul | 464 | 12 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Abdul appears in the lists for Province of East Flanders (264th) and Province of Antwerp (341st).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Abdul by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 34 | 329th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Abdul among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Abdul | 229 | 311 |
| Finland girls | Abdul | — | 46 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Abdul lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,618 men called Abdul were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barcelona | Abdul | 769 | 0.264 | 315 |
| Rioja, La | Abdul | 24 | 0.149 | 513 |
| Lleida | Abdul | 34 | 0.144 | 597 |
| Araba/Álava | Abdul | 21 | 0.125 | 603 |
| Tarragona | Abdul | 44 | 0.100 | 760 |
| Zaragoza | Abdul | 47 | 0.096 | 676 |
Listed in 33 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 19 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Abdul against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.