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Abdullah name meaning

“servant of God”

Letters
8
Syllables
3
First letter
A
Origin
Arabic
Category
Malay Names
Gender
♂ Boy
Peak 1940s: 12.8%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Malay table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s12.8%
1950s11.1%
1960s7.3%
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–
144

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Abdullah

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Malay Names: AMeaning faithArabic origin

Abdullah is a boy's name from Arabic meaning 'servant of God'.

What does Abdullah mean?

Servant of God

In Malay: hamba Allah

#Faith

Sources (1)

About the name Abdullah

Abdullah combines ʿabd, 'servant', and Allāh in the Arabic form عَبْدُ ٱللّٰه. It is a common name in Islamic tradition. Other spellings include Abdulah and Abdollah. According to JPN, the name peaked in the 1950s with 4,886 baby boys.

Gender♂ Boy
OriginArabic
SyllablesAb-dul-lah
First letterMalay Names starting with A
Arabic scriptعبد الله

Abdullah in official JPN data

1940s
Boy: 2,596 · 12.8%
1950s
Boy: 4,886 · 11.1%
1960s
Boy: 3,899 · 7.3%
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Abdullah as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Malay table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Compound names with Abdullah

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: Abdullah · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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