Abdullah
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Abdullah
Frequency: (919)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Muslim: from the Arabic personal name ῾Abdullāh ‘servant of Allah’. This was the name of the father of the Prophet Muhammad, who died before Muhammad was born. In the Qur’an (19:30), Jesus calls himself ῾Abdullāh: ‘He (Jesus) said: I am the servant of Allah’. The name is also borne by Christian Arabs.
GIVEN NAMES: Muslim 72%. Muhammad (21), Ali (11), Ahmed (10), Hassan (7), Mohamed (7), Ibrahim (6), Mohammed (6), Adnan (5), Khalil (5), Tariq (5), Amin (4), Ismail (4).
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