Abdoulaye

“Variant of Abdullah — Servant of God” — Arabic origin

Boy's name · #2480 in the US (2025) · Trending

Abdoulaye is climbing: on the charts since 1992, it reached #2480 in 2025 — its strongest showing yet, with about 50 boys given the name last year. Roughly 970 have carried it all-time. In New York it runs about 6× its national rate.

Around the world: about 1 in 1,300 boys in France (2025) · about 1 in 1,800 boys in Belgium (2025) · about 1 in 13,000 boys in Canada (2024).

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 2 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Famous Abdoulayes

Abdoulaye Wade — 3rd President of Senegal
Abdoulaye Faye — Senegalese footballer
Abdoulaye Diallo — Senegalese and French footballer (born March 1992)
Abdoulaye Doucouré — French-Malian footballer (born 1993)
Abdoulaye Méïté — Ivorian-French footballer (born 1980)

What Abdoulayes become

Among 290 notable people named Abdoulaye:

Sports figures appear 2.3× more often than among typical names — e.g. Abdoulaye Faye, Senegalese footballer.

Similar names: Abdallah · Jahsir · Abdulrahman · Mordecai · Shmiel · Shloimy

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