Abadia
surname · Latin script
Meaning: abbey
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Abadia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 13K(measured from records)
- COColombia≈1 in 17K
- BRBrazil≈1 in 51K
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.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 153 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
abbey
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Abadia 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 51K | 7.6K | Abadia | 78 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,976 | 1 in 13K | 4K | Abadia | 131 |
| CO Colombia | #977 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 2 | Abadia | 86 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 92K | — | Abadia | 27 |
| AR Argentina | — | 677 | 1 in 67K | 677 | Abadia | 43 |
| PA Panama | #394 | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 3 | Abadia | 27 |
| CR Costa Rica | #529 | 230 | 1 in 22K | 230 | Abadia | 9 |
| PR Puerto Rico | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Abadia | 7 |
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: IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Abadia is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In roa-opt, abbey (monastery headed by an abbot)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, alternative form of abbazia
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)
- Miguel Abadía Méndezb. 1867COPresident of Colombia (1867-1947)
- Francisco Ascasob. 1901ESnot in their usual nameSpanish anarcho-syndicalist (1901–1936)
- Leopoldo Abadíab. 1933ESSpanish writer
- Maria de Lourdes Abadiab. 1944BRBrazilian politician
- Régine Abadiab. 1959FRFrench film director
- Agustín Abadíab. 1962ESSpanish football player/manager/director
- Maravillas Abadía Joverb. 1981ESSpanish politician (born 1981)
- Ximo Abadíab. 1983ESSpanish illustrator
- Mario Abadíab. 1986COColombian footballer
- Adrian Abadiab. 2002ESSpanish diver
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 26 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 11K | #1,227 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 4K | #1,316 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 4K | #1,316 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 677 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 230 | #924 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 2 | #114 |
| PA Panama | Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election | 2024 | 1 | #1,077 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Abadia mean, and where does it come from?
- abbey Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Abadia?
- In the etymology graph, Abade is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Abadia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.1 thousand people named Abadia in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled abadia.
- Where is Abadia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Abadia is densest in Spain — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Abadia?
- In Spain, the national register counted 3,976 people named Abadia, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Abadia compared with other names?
- In Panama, Abadia is the 394th most common surname of 39,844 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/abadiaThe 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, “Abadia” — the 394th most common surname in Panama. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.