Abraha
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/eɪbɹəhə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Abraha is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ethiopia than in any other country. In Eritrea it is the 12th most common surname.
- SESweden1 in 15K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 361K
- EREritrea≈1 in 999
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.
- Ethiopia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 164 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 999 (inferred from the name graph)
≈27,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Eritrea, 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)
Abraha 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ET Ethiopia | #222 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Abraha | 27 |
| ER Eritrea | #12 | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 999 | — | Abraha | 15 |
| US United States | — | 922 | 1 in 361K | 1.4K | Abraha | 164 |
| NO Norway | — | 710 | 1 in 7.7K | 710 | Abraha | 18 |
| SE Sweden | #817 | 660 | 1 in 15K | 660 | Abraha | 15 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 394 | 1 in 21K | 394 | Abraha | 9 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Abraha 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 Latin, ablative singular of Ābrahām
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)
- Abraham Adhanomb. 1977ERnot in their usual nameSwedish long-distance runner
- Iosief Abraharesearcher
- Million AbrahaEpidemiologist, Medical doctor
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 24 sources across 11 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- How do you pronounce Abraha?
- A machine transcription gives /eɪbɹəhə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Abraha have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 27 thousand people named Abraha in Ethiopia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled abraha.
- How common is the name Abraha?
- In the United States, the national register counted 922 people named Abraha in 2010, about 1 in 361 thousand residents.
- How common is Abraha compared with other names?
- In Ethiopia, Abraha is the 222nd most common surname of 22,571 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/abrahaThe 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, “Abraha” — the 222nd most common surname in Ethiopia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.