Ábalos

surname · Latin script

Meaning: a toponymic surname

Ábalos is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 135K(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 4.7K
  • ARArgentina1 in 5.6K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Argentina (measured from records)

8,182 people

Sources
236 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 4.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Abalos in PH Philippines, US United States, AR Argentina and 1 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

a toponymic surname

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ábalos counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Ábalos is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina—8,1821 in 5.6K8.2KAbalos1
US United States—2,4631 in 135K2.5KAbalos236
ES Spain—1,2841 in 39K1.3KAbalos33
UY Uruguay—7141 in 4.7K714——
BR Brazil—581 in 3.7M58——
DK Denmark—81 in 734K8——
PH Philippines#264———Abalos99

8,182 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ábalos is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Abalos, Àbalos

  • Spanish surname24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Philippines, United States, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic

    Also written Abalos, Ãbalos

  • Ukrainian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, United States, Russia, Philippines

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

    Also written Abalos, Абалос

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Indonesia, United States, Spain

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Abalos

  • Japanese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Japan, United States, Philippines

    Also written Abalos

4 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

175018001850190019502000José Domingo Ábalos, b. 1798Adolfo Ábalos, b. 1914Jorge Washington Ábilos, b. 1915Vitillo Ábalos, b. 1922Benjamin Abalos, b. 1935José Luis Ábalos, b. 1959Benjamin Abalos, Jr., b. 1962Coraje Ábalos, b. 1972Alfredo Ábalos, b. 1986

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ábalos mean, and where does it come from?
a toponymic surname Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Ábalos have the most bearers?
In Argentina, the national register counted about 8.2 thousand people named Ábalos, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled abalos.
Where is Ábalos most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ábalos is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 4.7 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Ábalos?
In Argentina, the national register counted 8,182 people named Ábalos, about 1 in 5.6 thousand residents.
How common is Ábalos compared with other names?
In the Philippines, Ábalos is the 264th most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ábalos” — the 264th most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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