Abasi
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: The monetary unit of Afghanistan during the 19th century, valued at 1/3 of a rupee
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/aɓasi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Abasi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 100K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 273K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 323K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 104 (measured from records)
- 1 in 100K (inferred from the name graph)
102 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
The monetary unit of Afghanistan during the 19th century, valued at 1/3 of a rupee.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Abasi is read(measured from records)
Abasi is one spelling over 5 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.
- Swahili24%
Swahili: stem
as a nameAfrican Names
- English23%
The monetary unit of Afghanistan during the 19th century, valued at 1/3 of a rupee.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Persian9.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Abasi in Persian.
- Arabic8.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Abasi in Arabic.
- Urdu5.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Abasi in Urdu.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Abasi 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.
102 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Abasi 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.
Stem
as a nameThe book of African names
stern. Prophet Muhammad's uncle
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
God.
as a nameThe African book of names
In Norwegian Bokmål, abasia (an inability to walk due to a defect in muscular coordination)
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)
- Ini-Abasi Umotongb. 1994NGNigerian association football player
- Abasi Malone-BrownUSAmerican reality television participant
- Emem Abasi BasseyNGNigerian Chief Medical 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 32 sources across 20 countries.
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Abasi mean, and where does it come from?
- The monetary unit of Afghanistan during the 19th century, valued at 1/3 of a rupee. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Abasi?
- A machine transcription gives /aɓasi/ (IPA) for Swahili.
- In which country does Abasi have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 102 people named Abasi, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Abasi most common?
- Abasi is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 100 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Abasi?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 102 people named Abasi, about 1 in 100 thousand residents.
- How common is Abasi compared with other names?
- In Tanzania, Abasi is the 713th most common surname of 112,969 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/abasiThe 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, “Abasi” — the 713th most common surname in Tanzania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.