Abdallah

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Abdallah: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Abdallah: Recorded since 1979, it reached #218 in 2001, and it stood at #1,517 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
56times a registrar ranked it
46years from first to last
#218highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1591
1998	#1821
1999	#1130
2000	#1425
2001	#1467
2002	#1128
2003	#1092
2004	#999
2005	#1377
2006	#1016
2007	#1014
2008	#1294
2009	#1133
2010	#854
2011	#1303
2012	#1270
2013	#1294
2014	#1178
2015	#833
2016	#1570
2017	#1247
2018	#1382
2019	#974
2020	#1314
2021	#1688
2022	#1268
2023	#1610
2024	#1517

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 24 of the 36 years from 1979 to 2014.

In 2018: #749 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #1382 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1979–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1979
First recorded at #603 among boys in Norway in 1979 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1517 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Abdallah appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 28 ranked years and 514 births registered; the earliest is Norway · Boys, from 1979.

Abdallah across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Abdallah's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#603 (1979)	#278 (2001)	#405 (2014)	24 of 36	134 (1979–2014)	14 (2001)
England and Wales · Boys	#1591 (1996)	#833 (2015)	#1517 (2024)	28 of 29	514 (1996–2024)	37 (2015)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#718 (2012)	#610 (2017)	#749 (2018)	3 of 7	10 (2012–2018)	4 (2017)

Abdallah by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Abdallah in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	25	3 of 10	8
2000s	168	10 of 10	17
2010sbusiest	235	10 of 10	24
2020s	86	5 of 10	17

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 24 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Abdallah appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1979 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #218 in Northern Ireland in 2001.

Abdallah's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#1517	17	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1610	15	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1268	21	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1688	14	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1314	19	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#974	29	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1382	18	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1247	21	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1570	16	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#833	37	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1178	22	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1294	19	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1270	20	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1303	19	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#854	34	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1133	22	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1294	18	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1014	24	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1016	22	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1377	14	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#999	20	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1092	16	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1128	14	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1467	9	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1425	9	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1130	12	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1821	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1591	7	High	Verified
2001	Northern Ireland	male	#218	5	High	Verified
2014	Norway	male	#405	8	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#523	4	High	Verified
2012	Norway	male	#533	4	High	Verified
2010	Norway	male	#441	7	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#473	6	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#460	6	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#467	6	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#530	4	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#445	6	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#366	8	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#518	4	High	Verified
2001	Norway	male	#278	14	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#411	7	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#549	4	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#555	4	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#473	6	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#525	5	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#602	4	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#554	5	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#609	4	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#569	5	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#552	5	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#624	4	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#603	4	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#749	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#610	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#718	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1979 and 2024, ranked in 38 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #218, first reached in 2001.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 37 births, registered in England and Wales in 2015.

Its record falls into 6 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 33 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Abby · #55, 33y
Abd · #337, 28y
Abdel · #500, 26y
Abdelrahman · #439, 19y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Weronika · #219, 43y
Hafsa · #216, 35y
Margo · #209, 33y
Devin · #208, 33y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Niclas · #217, 46y
Evin · #215, 48y
Ivo · #215, 46y
Dwain · #222, 12y

Abdallah was ranked #218 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2001. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Abdallah and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Abdallah without appearing here.

Abdallah moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1610 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1517 and #5119.
Kelly Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1467 and #1467 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #1128 and #3225.
Shannon Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1467 and #1467 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #1128 and #3225.
Kim Compare
In 1998 they stood at #1821 and #1367 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #1130 and #2943.

Moved ahead of Abdallah

Theodor Compare
In 2015 they stood at #833 and #873 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #1570 and #774.
Tadhg Compare
In 2015 they stood at #833 and #996 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #1570 and #1050.
Ronny Compare
In 2010 they stood at #854 and #1055 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #1303 and #812.
Harper Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1268 and #1609 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #1610 and #1207.

Moved the opposite way to Abdallah

Stephen Compare
Between 1981 and 2001 in Norway · Boys, Abdallah went from #624 to #278 while Stephen went from #320 to #522.
Kim Compare
Between 1996 and 2015 in England and Wales · Boys, Abdallah went from #1591 to #833 while Kim went from #1168 to #4747.
Tayla Compare
Between 1996 and 2015 in England and Wales · Boys, Abdallah went from #1591 to #833 while Tayla went from #1458 to #4747.
Aksel Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Abdallah went from #1016 to #1517 while Aksel went from #4052 to #1132.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1979 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #218 in Northern Ireland in 2001. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Abdallah

Abdallah at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Abdallah across 3 official records

Abdallah by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Abdallah appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Abdallah

Abdallah and the names beside it

Abdallah moved ahead of

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Abdallah at a glance

Abdallah across 3 official records

Abdallah by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Abdallah appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Abdallah

Abdallah and the names beside it

Abdallah moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Abdallah

Moved the opposite way to Abdallah