Abune
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Abune is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ethiopia than in any other country.
- ETEthiopia≈1 in 42K(inferred from the name graph)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 3.9M
- ILIsrael≈1 in 5.7M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. 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
- 9 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 42K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,600 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ethiopia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled አቡኔ in ET Ethiopia.
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)
Abune 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 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | አቡኔ | 7 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 3.9M | — | Abune | 2 |
| US United States | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 36M | listed | Abune | 9 |
| IL Israel | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 5.7M | — | Abune | 3 |
| GY Guyana | — | — | 3 | — | — |
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 us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Abune is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In sco, alternative form of abuin (“above”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Alternative form of aboon
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In crh, subscription
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- In which country does Abune have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.6 thousand people named Abune in Ethiopia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled አቡኔ.
- How common is the name Abune?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2,600 people in Ethiopia have Abune as their first surname, about 1 in 42 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Abune?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/abuneThe 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, “Abune”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.