Äbel
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Äbel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. In Angola it is the 88th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Old Galician-Portuguese Abel, from Latin Abel, from Ancient Greek Ἅβελ (Hábel), from Hebrew הֶ֫בֶל.
- PEPeru≈1 in 976(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 1.2K
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 1.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 405 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 976 (inferred from the name graph)
≈93,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Abel in AR Argentina, PE Peru, US United States and 4 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)
- Old Galician-PortugueseAbel(measured from records)
- LatinAbel(measured from records)
- Ancient GreekἍβελHábel(measured from records)
- Hebrewהֶ֫בֶל(measured from records)
From Old Galician-Portuguese Abel, from Latin Abel, from Ancient Greek Ἅβελ (Hábel), from Hebrew הֶ֫בֶל.
Sources 13
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
- A concise dictionary of first names
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 31 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Äbel 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈93,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Abel | 42 |
| US United States | — | 63,705 | 1 in 5.2K | 63K | Abel | 405 |
| AR Argentina | #199 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 589 | Abel | 121 |
| PE Peru | #158 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 976 | — | Abel | 104 |
| ES Spain | #235 | 25,208 | 1 in 2K | 25K | Abel | 184 |
| AO Angola | #88 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Abel | 39 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 9,613 | 1 in 1.8K | 9.6K | — | 57 |
| HU Hungary | — | 7,486 | 1 in 1.3K | 7.5K | — | — |
| SV El Salvador | #233 | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Abel | 42 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INEC — civil registry names; Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025). 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).
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 Äbel mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Galician-Portuguese Abel, from Latin Abel, from Ancient Greek Ἅβελ (Hábel), from Hebrew הֶ֫בֶל. Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and A Dictionary of English Surnames and 11 other sources.
- Is Äbel a male or female name?
- Äbel is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Äbel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 93 thousand people named Äbel in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled abel.
- How common is the name Äbel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 63,705 people named Äbel in 2020, about 1 in 5.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Äbel compared with other names?
- In Angola, Äbel is the 88th most common given name of 11,132 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A4belThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Äbel” — the 88th most common given name in Angola. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.