Abdul
An Arabic name meaning "servant of God". In Poland it stays rare and strictly a man's name: just over 600 men carry it, most of them given it during the 2000s, with almost none since.
Abdul Pronunciation
Abdul is pronounced AHB-dool (/ˈabdul/).
What Abdul means
Where Abdul comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Abdul reaches Polish registers from Arabic, where it begins with the word abd, meaning servant. In its fuller form it pairs abd with al, the definite article, so the name reads as servant of God, sługa boży in Polish. That element rarely walks alone in Arabic. It opens a longer name, as in Abdullah, and the piece a child keeps in daily use is Abdul.
The meaning stays close to the surface here. A boy called Abdul holds a statement of devotion in his given name, and the sense of servant is grammatical, built into the two small parts that make the word.
On a Polish class register, Abdul sits among the Jakubs and Piotrs as a marker of family and faith brought from elsewhere. The name travels well. It keeps its short o sound and its meaning intact across languages. Whatever else changes, the servant of God stays the servant of God, and Abdul remains sługa boży.
How many people are named Abdul
1 in 34879 men in Poland is named Abdul. 612 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1206 among male names.
Abdul's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Abdul as a middle name
Abdul is a first name for 612 men in Poland and a middle name for another 90, an 87/13 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 753rd, between Leslie (91) and Alonso (90).
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#751 Lal91
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#752 Leslie91
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#753 Abdul90
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#754 Alonso90
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#755 Chris90