Abdal
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Turkish: A religious devotee in radical Sufism who has attained a high level of spirituality, comparable to a sannyasi in Hinduism
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 22 countries
/abˈdal/(recorded in a dictionary) Turkish · from Wiktionary
Abdal is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 41Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- KWKuwait≈1 in 56Kfew records
- SYSyria≈1 in 66Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 78 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Saudi Arabia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A religious devotee in radical Sufism who has attained a high level of spirituality, comparable to a sannyasi in Hinduism
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Abdal is read
(measured from records)Abdal is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Turkish29%
A religious devotee in radical Sufism who has attained a high level of spirituality, comparable to a sannyasi in Hinduism
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
1. Gezgin derviş.2. Dilenci kılıklı, üstü başı perişan kimse.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Arabic19%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Abdal in Arabic.
- Urdu14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Abdal in Urdu.
- Hindi11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Abdal in Hindi.
- English7.0%
A religious devotee or dervish in Persia.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Abdal counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 322K | 10K | Abdal | 37 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Abdal | 16 |
| PK Pakistan | #929 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 88K | listed | Abdal | 34 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 41K | listed | Abdal | 25 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 197K | listed | Abdal | 37 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Abdal | 14 |
| SE Sweden | — | 101 | 1 in 101K | 101 | — | 9 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Abdal | 31 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Abdal is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Plural of Badal substitutes,
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
In Azerbaijani, an ignorant person, blockhead
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, fool, idiot
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Pir Sultan Abdalb. 1480TRAlevist religious figure
- Muhyiddin Abdalb. 1500TRTurkish writer (born 1500)
- Kara Şemsib. 1828TRnot in their usual nameTurkish poet
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)36 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 10K | #954 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 171 | #18,010 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 75 | #9,063 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Abdal mean, and where does it come from?
- A religious devotee in radical Sufism who has attained a high level of spirituality, comparable to a sannyasi in Hinduism Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Abdal?
- In Turkish /abˈdal/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Abdal a male or female name?
- Abdal is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Abdal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.5 thousand people named Abdal in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled abdal.
- How common is the name Abdal?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 101 people named Abdal, about 1 in 101 thousand residents.
- How common is Abdal compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Abdal is the 929th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/abdalThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Abdal” — the 929th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.