# Abdullahi (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/abdullahi/  
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 | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,843 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,843 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,059, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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 | 87 | 1,703 |
| 2012 | 92 | 1,668 |
| 2013 | 113 | 1,459 |
| 2014 | 103 | 1,551 |
| 2015 | 83 | 1,804 |
| 2016 | 98 | 1,628 |
| 2017 | 86 | 1,780 |
| 2018 | 85 | 1,792 |
| 2019 | 75 | 1,954 |
| 2020 | 67 | 2,094 |
| 2021 | 58 | 2,349 |
| 2022 | 65 | 2,217 |
| 2023 | 51 | 2,575 |
| 2024 | 57 | 2,418 |
| 2025 | 41 | 2,992 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 57 | 602 |
| 2012 | 51 | 666 |
| 2013 | 48 | 684 |
| 2014 | 35 | 854 |
| 2015 | 36 | 856 |
| 2016 | 37 | 858 |
| 2017 | 40 | 806 |
| 2018 | 28 | 1,013 |
| 2019 | 30 | 952 |
| 2020 | 30 | 944 |
| 2021 | 23 | 1,184 |
| 2022 | 22 | 1,224 |
| 2023 | 17 | 1,461 |
| 2024 | 19 | 1,402 |
| 2025 | 14 | 1,798 |

## People named Abdullahi

- Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, former president of Puntland and President of Somalia (dead 2012)
- Abdullahi Ibrahim, former Nigerian Minister of Justice

## 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.