# Abdul (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/abdul/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Arabic |
| Meaning | “servant [of]”, “the” |
| Pronunciation | /əbˈdʊl/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Abdi |
| US babies named this | 6,528 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 6,528 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 8,200, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Arabic عَبْد (ʕabd, “servant [of]”) + ال (al-, “the”).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 114 | 1,440 |
| 2012 | 116 | 1,428 |
| 2013 | 114 | 1,444 |
| 2014 | 104 | 1,537 |
| 2015 | 122 | 1,406 |
| 2016 | 127 | 1,386 |
| 2017 | 132 | 1,348 |
| 2018 | 120 | 1,453 |
| 2019 | 108 | 1,548 |
| 2020 | 111 | 1,512 |
| 2021 | 88 | 1,789 |
| 2022 | 105 | 1,642 |
| 2023 | 94 | 1,745 |
| 2024 | 89 | 1,820 |
| 2025 | 84 | 1,867 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 284 | 190 |
| 2012 | 314 | 182 |
| 2013 | 300 | 187 |
| 2014 | 307 | 182 |
| 2015 | 300 | 190 |
| 2016 | 271 | 207 |
| 2017 | 254 | 206 |
| 2018 | 278 | 191 |
| 2019 | 256 | 200 |
| 2020 | 241 | 211 |
| 2021 | 214 | 234 |
| 2022 | 228 | 220 |
| 2023 | 268 | 189 |
| 2024 | 338 | 152 |
| 2025 | 292 | 177 |

## In other languages

- Chinese: 阿卜杜勒
- Dutch: Abdoel, Abdel
- French: Abdoul
- German: Abdul
- Hindi: अब्दुल
- Indonesian: Abdul
- Polish: Abdul
- Russian: Абду́л
- Turkish: Abdül

## People named Abdul

- Abdul Razak Hussein, former 2nd Prime Minister of Malaysia (1922-1976)
- Abdul Kabir, acting prime minister of Afghanistan since 2023
- Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, Afghan mujahideen commander and politician (born 1946)
- Abdul Sabur Farid Kohistani, Afghan politician (1952–2007)
- Fiston Abdul Razak, Burundian association football player
- Abdul Zahir, Afghan Prime Minister (1910-1982)
- Abdul Salis, British actor
- Abdul Raziq, Afghan police chief (1979–2018)
- Abdul Qavi Desnavi, an Indian Urdu language writer, critic, bibliographer, and linguist (1930-2011)
- Abdul Kadiri Mohammed, association football player
- Abdul Baser Wasiqi, Afghan athletics competitor (born 1975)
- Abdul Ahad Kharot, Afghan footballer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.