CaBa
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: acronym of Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, the official name of Buenos Aires
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kaba/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
CaBa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Dominican Republic than in any other country.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- BOBolivia≈1 in 2.8K
- ARArgentina1 in 27K
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.
- Dominican Republic (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 173 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
acronym of Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, the official name of Buenos Aires
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How CaBa is read(measured from records)
CaBa is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish52%
acronym of Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, the official name of Buenos Aires
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English25%
A cabas, or lady's bag.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Turkish8.3%
free
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
CaBa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DO Dominican Republic | #157 | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | CaBa | 50 |
| BO Bolivia | #220 | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | CaBa | 38 |
| US United States | — | 2,506 | 1 in 133K | 2.6K | CaBa | 173 |
| IN India | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 541K | — | CaBa | 5 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | CaBa | 18 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,661 | 1 in 27K | 1.7K | CaBa | 50 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | CaBa | 23 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | CaBa | 9 |
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). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
CaBa is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Kurdish, Gift, present
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
In Haitian Creole, to finish
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, wasp
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Antoni Cabab. 1838ESCatalan painter (1838–1907)
- Eduardo Cabab. 1890BOBolivian composer
- Irene Caba Albab. 1899ARSpanish actress
- Pedro Caba Landab. 1900ESSpanish poet
- Julia Caba Albab. 1902ESSpanish actress (1902–1988)
- Olga Cabab. 1913RORomanian poet and educator
- Nora Cabab. 1925ATAustrian teacher and composer
- Irene Gutiérrez Cabab. 1927ESSpanish actress
- Julia Gutiérrez Cabab. 1932ESSpanish actress
- Emilio Gutiérrez Cabab. 1942ESSpanish actor
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.6K | #11,509 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.5K | #12,407 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.8K | #14,885 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.7K | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 CaBa mean, and where does it come from?
- acronym of Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, the official name of Buenos Aires Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce CaBa?
- A machine transcription gives /kaba/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does CaBa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.3 thousand people named CaBa in the Dominican Republic, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled CaBa.
- How common is the name CaBa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,506 people named CaBa in 2010, about 1 in 133 thousand residents.
- How common is CaBa compared with other names?
- In the Dominican Republic, CaBa is the 157th most common surname of 26,844 surnames 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/cabaThe 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, “CaBa” — the 157th most common surname in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.