first name
ABDUL
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 20,968 people named Abdul, 54.8% reported their origin as Asian or Pacific Islander, 23.9% as Black and 12.2% as White. Virtually all are male (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Abdul peaked in 1975, when 157 babies got the name.
At least 6,528 babies have been given the name since 1930. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Abdul by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #1,902. The largest share of babies named Abdul, 31.7%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Abdul is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Abdul has been most common in New Jersey (4.6×), New York (3.9×), and Maryland (3.6×), and least common in North Carolina (0.3×).
4,523 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Abdul
Spelled almost the same
4 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Abdul, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Abdul ranks #12,111 of 156,621, with 2,456 people. See Abdul as a last name
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