Abma
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Abma is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. Recorded meaning: a surname, patronym of West Frisian male given name Abe.
- NLNetherlands1 in 17K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.8M
- BEBelgium1 in 2.9M
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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 12 (measured from records)
- 1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
1,037 people, 2007
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a surname, patronym of West Frisian male given name Abe
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Abma 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 1,037 | 1 in 17K | 1K | Abma | 11 |
| US United States | 181 | 1 in 1.8M | 191 | Abma | 12 |
| ES Spain | 7 | 1 in 7.1M | 7 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 4 | 1 in 2.9M | 4 | — | — |
| FR France | — | — | — | Abma | 11 |
1,037 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Abma is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In kw, to kiss
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)
- Hette Abmab. 1917NLDutch politician (1917-1992)
- Jelle Abmab. 1921NLDutch architect
- Gerben Abmab. 1932NLDutch historian and writer (1932–2016)
- Harmen Abmab. 1937NLDutch painter (1937-2007)
- Willem Abmab. 1942NLFrisian poet and writer
- Karin Abmab. 1951NLDutch rower
- Cynthia Abmab. 1969NLDutch actress and presenter (born 1969)
- Daniel Abmab. 1978NLDutch film director and screenwriter
- Elmar Abmab. 2004NLDutch cyclist
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 9 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 1K | #1,647 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 191 | #100,867 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 181 | #99,845 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 173 | #97,384 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7 | #143,513 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 4 | #114,205 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Abma mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname, patronym of West Frisian male given name Abe Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Abma have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Abma, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled abma.
- Where is Abma most common?
- Abma is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 17 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Abma?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,037 people named Abma in 2007, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/abmaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Abma”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.