How Many People Are Named Abdul?
people named Abdul are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 55,171 people in the US has this name
Based on 6,528 babies named Abdul in Social Security records from 1930 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
157 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
First part of compound Arabic names beginning with عبد ال ('Abd al) meaning "servant of the" (such as عبد العزيز ('Abd al-'Aziz) "servant of the powerful").
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Abdul in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Abdul alive today is about 28 years old, and 57% are under 30. Half of them were between 14 and 41 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Abdul first appears in the records in 1930 and was given most often in 1975, to 157 babies. In 2025, 84 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1930 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Abdul has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #652, in 1976. In 2025 it ranked #1,867.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #1,867 |
| Best rank | #652 (1976) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,205 in the 2000s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Abdul alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Abdul were born in New York than in any other state: about 1,311 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Abdul was given 4.7 times as often in New Jersey, 4.5 times in New York and 3.4 times in Maryland.
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