Meaning and history
The first element in compound Arabic names beginning with عبد ال (ʿAbd al), meaning “servant of the,” as in عبد العزيز (ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz), meaning “servant of the powerful.”
20062006: 122 births, rank #1,339
2007: 124 births, rank #1,350
2008: 126 births, rank #1,355
2009: 127 births, rank #1,353
2010: 102 births, rank #1,558
20112011: 114 births, rank #1,440
2012: 116 births, rank #1,428
2013: 114 births, rank #1,444
2014: 104 births, rank #1,536
2015: 122 births, rank #1,406
20162016: 127 births, rank #1,386
2017: 132 births, rank #1,348
2018: 120 births, rank #1,453
2019: 108 births, rank #1,548
2020: 111 births, rank #1,512
20212021: 88 births, rank #1,789
2022: 105 births, rank #1,642
2023: 94 births, rank #1,744
2024: 89 births, rank #1,820
20252025: 84 births, rank #1,867
Abdul moved from #900 to #970 for boys between 1997 and 1998. Its highest annual birth count came in 1975, with 157 births.