Abdulah
Abd Allah, also spelled Abdullah, Abdhullah, Abdellah, Abdollah, Abdallah, Abdulla, Abdalla and many others, is an Arabic theophoric name meaning servant of God or "God's follower". It is built from the Arabic words ʻabd and Allāh.
- Bosnian
Meaning & Origin of Abdulah
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Abd Allah, also spelled Abdullah, Abdhullah, Abdellah, Abdollah, Abdallah, Abdulla, Abdalla and many others, is an Arabic theophoric name meaning servant of God or "God's follower". It is built from the Arabic words ʻabd and Allāh.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Bosnian
The Story of Abdulah
American parents first put Abdulah on the record books as a baby boy name in 1990, with 5 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 1995, when 9 Abdulahs were born — ranking #5,928 that year. About 60% of every Abdulah on record arrived during the 1990s, its defining decade. Abdulah last appeared in the published SSA data in 2010, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 75 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1990s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Abdulah
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- Avdo
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About the name Abdulah
Abdulah is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1990 and has accumulated 75 births in the dataset. Abdulah's peak popularity came in 1995 when it ranked #5,928. Use the chart and map above to compare Abdulah's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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