Abdullah

Abdullah is the 3,166th most common surname in the United States, shared by 11,125 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 26,900.

By the numbers

People: 11,125
Rank: 3,166th
How common: 1 in 26,900
Per 100,000: 3.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Arabic

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Abdullah described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 39.1%
White, not Hispanic 30.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 18.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 7.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Abdullah

Abdullah Abdullah (born 1960)Afghan politician
Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah (1905–1982)Kashmiri politician
Omar Abdullah (born 1970)Indian politician
Farah Zeynep Abdullah (born 1989)Turkish actor and singer
Bruna Abdullah (born 1986)Brazilian actress
Farooq Abdullah (born 1937)Indian and Kashmiri politician
Rafidine Abdullah (born 1994)Comorian footballer
Asya Abdullah (born 1971)politician

People named Abdullah with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Abdullah

Also a first name

Abdullah has been given to 9,383 American babies as a first name since 1947, peaking in 2014. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.