Abdula
given name · Latin script
Meaning: variant of Abdullah, 'servant of God'
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 30 countries
Abdula is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Saudi Arabia than in any other country. In Bahrain it is the most common given name.
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 98as Abdullah(inferred from the name graph)
- KWKuwait≈1 in 140as Abdullah
- QAQatar≈1 in 180as Abdulla
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Abdula itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Saudi Arabia (inferred from the name graph)
- #492 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 285 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 98 (inferred from the name graph)
≈360,000 named Abdullah, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Saudi Arabia, est., as Abdullah
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Abdulla in IN India, QA Qatar, BH Bahrain and 2 more, Abdallah in EG Egypt, TZ Tanzania and Abdullah in TR Türkiye.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)variant of Abdullah, 'servant of God'
Cited for this meaning 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Abdula 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SA Saudi Arabia | #247 | ≈360,000 est. | ≈1 in 98 | — | Abdulla | 129 |
| TR Türkiye | #25 | 274,084as Abdullah | 1 in 299 | 274K | Abdullah | 152 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 804 | — | Abdallah | 160 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 514 | 15 | Abdallah | 62 |
| IN India | — | ≈92,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 1.7K | Abdulla | 125 |
| KW Kuwait | #114 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 142 | — | Abdulla | 84 |
| QA Qatar | #13 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 176 | — | Abdulla | 122 |
| BH Bahrain | #1 | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 176 | — | Abdulla | 124 |
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: TÜİK NIP — most used given names; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results. 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)Abdula is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, a male given name from Arabic, equivalent to English Abdullah
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)- Nazira Abdulb. 1968MZnot in their usual nameMozambique pediatrist and politician
- Anatoliy Abdulab. 1976UAUkrainian association football player and association football referee
- Ștefănel AbdulaRORomanian politician from Găiceana, Bacău County
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)53 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 123 | #19,809 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 107 | #27,151 |
Reference works 4
- 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)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Abdula mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Abdullah, 'servant of God' Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- Is Abdula a male or female name?
- Abdula is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: India (India Names Dataset), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Kosovo (ASK Kosovo).
- In which country does Abdula have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 362 thousand people named Abdullah in Saudi Arabia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Abdula?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 274,084 people named Abdullah in 2025, about 1 in 299 residents.
- How common is Abdula compared with other names?
- In Saudi Arabia, Abdula is the 247th most common given name of 64,319 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/abdulaThe 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, “Abdula” — the 247th most common given name in Saudi Arabia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.