Abdullah is a boy's name of Arabic origin meaning “servant, slave of Allah.” In 2024 it was given to 320 boys in the United States.
Abdullah at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Muslim & Arabic
Meaning
“servant, slave of Allah”
Pronunciation
/æbˈdʌlə/
About the name Abdullah
Abdullah belongs to the Muslim & Arabic tradition. Its meaning — “servant, slave of Allah” — is the sense carried by its Arabic roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Abdullah first appears in Social Security records in 1947. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #635 in 2014, and in 2024 320 babies received the name — 9,045 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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