Abha
given name · Latin script
Meaning: town, Saudi Arabia
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Abha is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.3Kas Ava(measured from records)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 6.2Kas Ava
- THThailand≈1 in 18Kas อาภา
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Abha itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 486 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
257,513 named Ava, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States, as Ava
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ava in US United States, AU Australia, PH Philippines and 3 more and อาภา in TH Thailand.
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)
town, Saudi Arabia
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Abha 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 257,513as Ava | 1 in 1.3K | 257K | Ava | 486 |
| FR France | — | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 10K | Abha | 23 |
| AU Australia | #710 | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | 811 | Ava | 165 |
| TH Thailand | — | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 18K | #797,686 | อาภา | 79 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Ava | 73 |
| SE Sweden | — | 2,009as Ava | 1 in 5.1K | 2K | Ava | 44 |
| FI Finland | — | 1,664as Ava | 1 in 3.3K | 1.8K | Ava | 10 |
| IE Ireland | #461 | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | 313 | Ava | 63 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 463as Ava | 1 in 4.5K | 500 | — | 5 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 5K | 271 | — | 1 |
257,513 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). 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)
Abha is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, alternative form of abhainn (“river”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In wlo, father (term of address), daddy
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In nxg, cut oneself, wound
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Latvian, pilsēta Saūda Arābijā (Abhā), Asīras mintakas administratīvais centrs, 201900 iedzīvotāju (2004. g.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Aabha Paulb. 1987INnot in their usual nameIndian television and film actress (born 1987)
- Abha GandhiINgrandniece of M. K. Gandhi
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 18 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 606 | #17,700 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #20,284 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #21,242 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 12 | #17,700 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 10 | #35,794 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1980 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2012 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 6 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Abha mean, and where does it come from?
- town, Saudi Arabia Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- Is Abha a male or female name?
- Abha is a female 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 Abha have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 258 thousand people named Ava, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Abha most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Abha itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is United States's: the national register counts about 1 in 1.3 thousand people named Ava.
- How common is the name Abha?
- In the United States, the national register counted 257,513 people named Ava in 2020, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Abha compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Abha is the 461st most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Abha?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/abhaThe 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, “Abha” — the 461st most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.