Abad
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: abbot
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/abad/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Abad is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- ECEcuador1 in 916(measured from records)
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 1.5K
- ESSpain1 in 1.7K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 283 (measured from records)
- 1 in 916 (inferred from the name graph)
≈59,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A surname from Spanish of Spanish occupational origin.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
How Abad is read(measured from records)
Abad is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.
- Spanish66%
abbot
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English21%
A surname from Spanish of Spanish occupational origin.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Abad 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #190 | ≈59,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Abad | 99 |
| ES Spain | #157 | 28,662 | 1 in 1.7K | 29K | Abad | 198 |
| EC Ecuador | #157 | 18,453 | 1 in 916 | 18K | Abad | 85 |
| PE Peru | #258 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Abad | 81 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #148 | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Abad | 44 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry 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)
Abad 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.
populated; flourishing;
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Único hombre
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In xgn-pro, at once, instantly
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Azerbaijani, well-furnished, well-equipped, well-organized, comfortable
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)
- Diego Abad de Santillánb. 1897ESSpanish anarchist, author, economist (1897-1983)
- Angelines Fernandezb. 1924MXnot in their usual nameMexican actress and comedian (1924–1994)
- María Antonia Abad Fernándezb. 1928ESSpanish-Mexican actress and singer (1928-2013)
- Pacita Abadb. 1946PHpainter (1946-2004)
- Héctor Abad Faciolinceb. 1958COColombian novelist, essayist, journalist and editor (born 1958)
- Alejandro Abadb. 1962CLChilean-Spanish singer-songwriter and music producer, known for participating at the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest
- Verónica Abad Rojasb. 1976ECEcuadorian politician and Former Vice President of Ecuador from 2023 to 2025 (born 1976)
- Oliver Abad Chicob. 1979ESSpanish footballer
- Damien Abadb. 1980FRFrench politician
- Ibai Abadb. 1985ESSpanish film director
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 60 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 29K | #176 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 29K | #176 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 18K | #229 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 160 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- Where does the name Abad come from?
- A surname from Spanish of Spanish occupational origin. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Abad?
- In the etymology graph, Abacial and Abadía are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Abad?
- A machine transcription gives /abad/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Abad mean?
- In Spanish, abbot
- In which country does Abad have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 59 thousand people named Abad in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled abad.
- Where is Abad most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Abad is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 916 people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Abad?
- In Spain, the national register counted 28,662 people named Abad, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Abad compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Abad is the 190th most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Abad?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/abadThe 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, “Abad” — the 190th most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.