Abalo
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Abalo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Togo than in any other country, where it is the 41st most common surname.
- UYUruguay1 in 4.3K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 20K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 31K
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.
- Togo (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 107 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 584 (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Togo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Abalo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TG Togo | #41 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 584 | 50K | Abalo | 11 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Abalo | 34 |
| AR Argentina | — | 2,231 | 1 in 20K | 2.2K | Abalo | 54 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,274 | 1 in 39K | 1.3K | Abalo | 81 |
| UY Uruguay | #824 | 796 | 1 in 4.3K | 796 | Abalo | 19 |
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: The page presents a list of common surnames in Togo, reflecting the cultural diversity of the region, published by the N; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Abalo 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 Latin, dative/ablative singular of Abalus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, shake
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)
- Manuel Abalo Lamasb. 1912ESSpanish politician
- Adolfo Abalo Ríosb. 1945ESSpanish politician
- Mariano Abalob. 1951ESSpanish politician
- María Laura Ábalob. 1981ARArgentine rower
- Luc Abalob. 1984FRFrench handball player
- Dani Abalob. 1987ESSpanish footballer
- Sunday Abalob. 1995NGNigerian footballer
- Francisco Feuillassierb. 1998ARnot in their usual nameArgentine footballer
- José E. AbaloVEVenezuelan botanist
- Raquel AbaloESresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-6726-8795
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 23 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 2.2K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.3K | #3,583 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.3K | #3,583 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 796 | — |
| TG Togo | Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024) | 2024 | 5 | #8 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- In which country does Abalo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Abalo in Togo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled abalo.
- How common is the name Abalo?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 2,231 people named Abalo, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
- How common is Abalo compared with other names?
- In Togo, Abalo is the 41st most common surname of 2,392 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Abalo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/abaloThe 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, “Abalo” — the 41st most common surname in Togo. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.