The Abdallah surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 4,121 people carried this name — #8,032 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 71,400 people counted. That is up 42% from 2,894 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 1,136 people named Abdallah.
469 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 57 départements, most often Mayotte.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
311 people named Abdallah live in Switzerland.
They live in 15 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 308 people named Abdallah live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Brussels-Capital.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 84 people named Abdallah live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In the Nordic population registers
1,109 people named Abdallah are counted in Sweden, Norway and Finland.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Norway publishes only surnames with 200 or more bearers. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Statistics Norway (SSB, ssb.no), table 12891, 2025 — CC BY 4.0 · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
Who carried it
People named Abdallah,
with a public archive behind them.
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Youssef Wahbi 1898–1982 · screenwriter -
Youssef Wahbi 1898–1982 · screenwriter
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Ahmed Abdallah 1919–1989 · politician -
Ahmed Abdallah 1919–1989 · politician
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Abdelwahab Abdallah 1940– · politician -
Yohanna Barnaba Abdallah 1870–1924 · priest
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Abdallah.
- Abbas 4,974 · U.S. census
- Abbassi 434 · U.S. census
- Abbate 2,692 · U.S. census
- Abbe 1,368 · U.S. census
- Abbo 509 · U.S. census
- Abboud 1,615 · U.S. census
- Abdelaziz 1,030 · U.S. census
- Abdelhadi 431 · U.S. census
- Abdelkader 412 · U.S. census
- Abdellatif 531 · U.S. census
- Abdelmalek 405 · U.S. census
- Abdi 7,484 · U.S. census
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