boys:
507 births since 1976
#4079 (11th percentile)
overall:
507 births since 1976
#7232 (7th percentile)
The name Abdulla is the #7,232 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 507 recorded births since 1976. This represents the 6.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,079 (11.0% percentile) for all time with 507 births since 1976.
Abdulla first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1976 (first recorded for boys in 1976). Birth data for Abdulla is available in 43 out of the 48 years between 1976 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Abdulla reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #797) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 11 births per million (ranked 2.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Abdulla ranks #903 for boys (0.9% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 67.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Abdulla".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Abdullah. View all variations of Abdullah.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Abdulla", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 7 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Abdullah" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Abdullah..
Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Abdulla. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 24.4% confident that Abdulla is pronounced as uhb-DOO-luh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ab-DUH-luh, at 17.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Abdulla? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Abdulla. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Abdulla, please vote using the thumbs up button.
Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like AH0 B D UH1 L AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker