Abà
surname · Latin script
Abà is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Proto-Turkic *apa (“mother, elder sister, aunt”).
- SESweden1 in 232K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 352K
- DKDenmark1 in 367K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Abà itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 18 (measured from records)
- 1 in 232K (inferred from the name graph)
231 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Aba in US United States, ES Spain.
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
(measured from records)From Proto-Turkic *apa (“mother, elder sister, aunt”).
Cited for this meaning 9
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Abà is found
(measured from records)Abà 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 231 | 1 in 1.4M | 533 | Aba | 7 |
| ES Spain | 142 | 1 in 352K | 142 | Aba | 5 |
| AR Argentina | 94 | 1 in 484K | 94 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 44 | 1 in 232K | 44 | — | — |
| IN India | 26 | 1 in 51M | 26 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 16 | 1 in 367K | 16 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 9 | 1 in 934K | 9 | — | 1 |
231 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Abà mean, and where does it come from?
- From Proto-Turkic *apa (“mother, elder sister, aunt”). Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and 7 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Abà?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 231 people named Abà, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aba. After it come Spain, Argentina, Sweden and India; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Abà most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Abà is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 232 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Abà?
- In the United States, the national register counted 231 people named Abà in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million 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/ab%C3%A0The 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, “Abà”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.