Abá

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Abá 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”).

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 232K(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 352K
  • DKDenmark1 in 367K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Abá itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

231 people, 2010

Sources
53 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 232K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Aba in AR Argentina, 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”).

Sources 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 26 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Abá 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.

Where Abá is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2311 in 1.4M533Aba53
ES Spain1421 in 352K142Aba41
AR Argentina941 in 484K94Aba32
SE Sweden441 in 232K44—1
IN India261 in 51M26—5
DK Denmark161 in 367K16——
NO Norway12as Ngwa1 in 456K12—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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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); 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); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Abá is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Nigeria, United States, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Aba, Àbà, Abà, Abã, Abā

  • Hungarian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Hungary, Nigeria, United States

    Also written Aba

3 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Abá is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In kne, carry on the back (children are ordinarily carried in that way)

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In akl, an exclamation expressing strong disbelief: Really? Ah, go on!

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In Filipino, emphatic denial; sudden reproach; simple surprise; hail!

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In Cebuano, exclamation of pleasure and surprise

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In akl, to get, climb up on one's back

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In bbc, exclamation: ah!, oh!, alas!

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Abá under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Abá 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.
In which country does Abá have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 231 people named Abá, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aba.
Where is Abá most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Abá 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 Abá?
In the United States, the national register counted 231 people named Abá in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.

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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, “Abá”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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