The Abdullah surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 8,314 people carried this name — #4,272 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 35,500 people counted. That is up 42% from 5,859 in 2000.

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In Switzerland’s population statistics

532 people named Abdullah live in Switzerland.

They live in 24 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they live today

Zurich 115
Bern 76
Vaud 48
Geneva 48
Aargau 31
St. Gallen 28
Ticino 27
Lucerne 27

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 397 people named Abdullah 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 Antwerp.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they live today

Antwerp 131
Brussels-Capital 73
East Flanders 55
West Flanders 51
Liège 39
Flemish Brabant 22
Hainaut 13
Limburg 13

Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.

In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 43 people named Abdullah.

Most of them — 31 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 8 départements, most often Loire-Atlantique.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they were born

Born outside France 31
Loire-Atlantique 3
Paris 2
Alpes-Maritimes 1
Ardèche 1
Vienne 1
Hauts-de-Seine 1
Val-de-Marne 1

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In the Nordic population registers

3,383 people named Abdullah 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

Sweden (2022) 2,246
Norway (2025) 875
Finland (2026) 262

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.

In Scotland’s registers today

Abdullah was recorded 22 times in Scotland’s registers of births, marriages and deaths in 2025.

That made it the 1076th most common name in those registers, shared with others on the same count. Each birth counts the child’s surname, each marriage both partners’ and each death the surname of the person who died — a yearly count of registrations, not of the people who live in Scotland.

National Records of Scotland, «Most Common Surnames, 2025» (published 26 May 2026): every surname recorded 10 or more times in the 2025 registers, and the series from 1975 · different spellings are counted separately — © Crown copyright 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

In print

Abdullah in American newspapers,
1917–1924.

Newspaper page from East St. Louis Daily Journal carrying the name Abdullah
East St. Louis Daily Journal 1924-11-09
Newspaper page from New-york Tribune carrying the name Abdullah
New-york Tribune 1922-11-19
Newspaper page from The Daily Missoulian carrying the name Abdullah
The Daily Missoulian 1917-07-08

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 30 pages in all carry the name.

In print

Abdullah in Australian newspapers,
1840s–1990s.

1,375 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Abdullah. The most, 427, date from the 1920s. Weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, it stands out most in Queensland, at 2.9 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

Queensland 779
New South Wales 284
ACT (Canberra) 136
Victoria 62
Western Australia 46
South Australia 42
Tasmania 15

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Abdullah.

Who carried it

People named Abdullah,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Achmed Abdullah
    Achmed Abdullah 1881–1945 · screenwriter
  • Tewfik Abdullah
    Tewfik Abdullah 1896–1963 · association football coach
  • Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah
    Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah 1905–1982 · writer
  • ʻAbd Allāh ʻAbd Allāh
    ʻAbd Allāh ʻAbd Allāh 1939–2025 · diplomat
  • Zaini Abdullah
    Zaini Abdullah 1940–2026 · physician

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped — Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah: India Post, Government of India, GODL-India (data.gov.in/sites/default/files/Gazette_Notification_OGDL.pdf); ʻAbd Allāh ʻAbd Allāh: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, CC BY-SA 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0); the others are in the public domain or CC0 · 115 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Abdullah,
in the records of 5 countries.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States109 records

109 records of the Abdullah name in the United States
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 75
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 15
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 7
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 6
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 5
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 1
  1. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Ghalib Ahmed Abdullah

    Born 1943; from New York, New York. U.S. Army, fixed station attendant; killed in action 1968 in Phong Dinh, South Vietnam. Buried at Long Island National Cemetery, New York.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Mustapha Abdullah

    Born 1912 in Dutch East Indies. Enlisted 1942 at Fort Jay Governors Island, New York; kitchen worker from Kings County, New York.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain)
  3. A U.S. Army record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864
    Example: U.S. burial record, 1864
    Burial record Abdul-Kabeer Abdullah

    U.S. Air Force veteran of the Korean War. Born 1926, died 1999; buried at San Joaquin Valley National Cemetery, California.

    U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)

Showing 3 of 109 records for Abdullah in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain).

Australia42 records

42 records of the Abdullah name in Australia
  • Victoria passenger lists, 1839–1923 32
  • NSW convict, estate and railway indexes 3
  • Queensland State Archives indexes 3
  • Tasmanian Names Index 2
  • Victoria wills and probate, deaths to 2001 1
  • State Library of Western Australia indexes 1
  1. An 1829 etching of convicts being rowed out to the prison ship York in Portsmouth Harbour
    Pictured: convicts going on board a prison ship, 1829
    Transportation record Siedy Abdullah

    Transported to New South Wales aboard the Symmetry, arriving 1838; ticket of leave 1844.

    Museums of History NSW – State Archives Collection (CC BY)
  2. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Michael Abdullah

    Arrived in Victoria in 1898 aboard the Stuttgart, aged 22.

    Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0)
  3. A page of the Berlin civil register, 1880
    Example: civil register, 1880
    Biographical index George Abdullah

    Born 1919, died 1984; obituary published in Western Australia.

    State Library of Western Australia (CC BY 4.0)

Showing 3 of 42 records for Abdullah in Australia.

Counts: Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0) · Museums of History NSW – State Archives Collection (CC BY) · Queensland State Archives (CC BY 4.0) · Libraries Tasmania, Tasmanian Names Index (CC BY 4.0) · State Library of Western Australia (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Prison-ship in Portsmouth Harbour, with the convicts going on board, etching by Edward William Cooke, 1829, Royal Museums Greenwich (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain); Civil register, Berlin, 1880, Landesarchiv Berlin (CC0).

France6 records

6 records of the Abdullah name in France France's national death register, 1970–2001
  1. A page of the death register of Nice, 1930
    Example: French death register, 1930
    Death record Andree Abdullah

    Born 1908 in Turkey; died 1999 in Callian (Var).

    Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte)
  2. A page of the death register of Nice, 1930
    Example: French death register, 1930
    Death record Raymond Abdullah

    Born 1915 in Syria; died 1995 in Menton (Alpes-Maritimes).

    Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte)
  3. A page of the death register of Nice, 1930
    Example: French death register, 1930
    Death record Roger Louis Abdullah

    Born 1923 in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre (Val-de-Marne); died 1996 in Dammarie-les-Lys (Seine-et-Marne).

    Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte)

Showing 3 of 6 records for Abdullah in France.

Counts: Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Death register of Nice, 1930, Archives départementales des Alpes-Maritimes (public domain).

Netherlands5 records

5 records of the Abdullah name in the Netherlands
  • Dutch population registers 3
  • Dutch civil registers (births, marriages, deaths) 2
  1. A marriage entry in the civil register of Tilburg, 1911
    Example: marriage register, 1911
    Marriage record Bin Achmad Abdullah

    Married in 1932 in 's-Gravenhage; "huisbediende".

    Open Archives, Haags Gemeentearchief (CC BY 4.0)
  2. A marriage entry in the civil register of Tilburg, 1911
    Example: marriage register, 1911
    Marriage record Djamaän Abdullah

    Married in 1927 in Dordrecht.

    Open Archives, Regionaal Archief Rivierenland (CC BY 4.0)
  3. A page of the 1910 United States census, Milwaukee
    Example: U.S. census, 1910
    Population register Mohamed Abdullah

    In a population register.

    Open Archives, Stadsarchief Rotterdam (CC BY 4.0)

Showing 3 of 5 records for Abdullah in the Netherlands.

Counts: Open Archives (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Marriage register, Tilburg, 1911, Regionaal Archief Tilburg (public domain); U.S. census of 1910, Milwaukee (public domain).

New Zealand1 record

1 record of the Abdullah name in New Zealand Christchurch City cemetery records
  1. A page of the burial register of Newtown, Wales, 1858
    Example: burial register, 1858
    Burial record Colleen Abdullah

    Died 1999, aged 48; buried at Ruru Lawn, Christchurch, Canterbury.

    Christchurch City Council (CC BY 4.0)

Counts: Christchurch City Council (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Burial register of Newtown, Montgomeryshire, 1858, National Library of Wales (CC0).

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