Abdul-Jabbar
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- AB-dul-ja-BAR
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,301 for boys
Abdul-Jabbar is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “servant of the + mighty, compeller”. In 2025 it ranked 4,301st for boys in the UK (4 babies).
What does Abdul-Jabbar mean?
Arabic: Abdul + Jabbar
“servant of the + mighty, compeller”
Joins Abdul (Arabic, “servant of the”) and Jabbar (Arabic, “mighty, compeller”).
Meanings borrowed from Abdul and Jabbar.
Is Abdul-Jabbar a girl's or a boy's name?
Abdul-Jabbar is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 boys in the UK. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Abdul-Jabbar in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,301st among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 4 about 1 in 75,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 4 boys in the UK were named Abdul-Jabbar, making it the 4,301st most popular name for boys.
2025 had the most boys named Abdul-Jabbar of any year since it first appeared, in 2019.
Among boys in 2025, it was 4,212th in England and Wales.
Abdul-Jabbar in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,301 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,193 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 3 | #4,913 |
Names like Abdul-Jabbar
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Abubakar, Muhammad, Abdullah, Abdulaziz, Abdur, Abdullahi, Abdirahman, Umar, Ahmed, Abubakr, Ammar, Zahir
More Arabic names
Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Abdul-Jabbar: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/abdul-jabbar, updated 20 October 2026.