Given name & surname
Abdulah
“a servant of God”
Abdulah is a variant of Abdul. One Arabic interpretation is “a servant of God.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Abdulah is a variant of Abdul. One Arabic interpretation is “a servant of God.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Abdulah is a variant of Abdul. An origin associated with Abdul is Arabic.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1990. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Abdulah through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 75
- 75 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1995
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2010. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 9 in 1995. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 346 as a first name in 2020; 180 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Abdulah’s family of names
Abdulah has a related form in Abdul. In Turkish usage, Abdulah has a related form in Abdullah. In Serbo-Croatian usage, Abdulah has a conventional equivalent in the Chinese form 阿卜杜拉.
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Around the world
Abdulah has relatives in 3 languages.
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Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Abdulah
- Abdulah SidranBosnian writer, poet and screenwriter (1944–2024)
- Abdulah GegićYugoslav footballer (1924–2008)
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