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How popular is the name Abdullah?

Births per year, rank history and how many Abdullahs are alive today.

Abdullah (male) sits just outside the top 100 boys' names in England and Wales, ranked 162nd in 2025 with 327 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2015, when 386 babies were given the name, the 146th most popular that year. It was almost as popular in 2024, with 362 babies given the name that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 196 in 2021 before climbing back to the 162nd place it holds today. Numbers have been rising in recent years. At least 8,000 babies have been named Abdullah in England and Wales since 1996. Abdullah is one spelling of a name also recorded as Abdulla; the combined figures below cover every spelling.

Across all spellings of the name, the Abdullah you are most likely to meet is around 11 years old. Half of all Abdullahs born in England and Wales are between 8 and 21, and there are at least 8,800 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 2.9% chance that at least one of them will be called Abdullah.

How many babies are named Abdullah each year?

Includes all spellings: Abdullah, Abdulla. Figures before 1996 are estimates.

Where does the Abdullah spelling rank?

Where does the Abdulla spelling rank?

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.