Abdul is a boy's name of Arabic origin meaning “servant.” In 2024 it was given to 89 boys in the United States.
Abdul at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Muslim & Arabic
Meaning
“servant”
About the name Abdul
Abdul belongs to the Muslim & Arabic tradition. Its meaning — “servant” — is the sense carried by its Arabic roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Abdul first appears in Social Security records in 1930. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #652 in 1976, and in 2024 89 babies received the name — 6,444 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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