Ābele
surname · Latin script
Meaning: apple tree (gen. Malus)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Ābele is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- LVLatvia≈1 in 6Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 19K
- NONorway1 in 105K
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 Ābele 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 231 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,400 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Latvia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Abele in US United States, DE Germany, GB United Kingdom and 5 more and አበለ 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
(measured from records)apple tree (gen. Malus)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ābele 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | — | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Abele | 111 |
| ET Ethiopia | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | አበለ | 6 |
| US United States | — | 1,326 | 1 in 251K | 1.6K | Abele | 231 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 218K | — | Abele | 14 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 202K | 13 | Abele | 46 |
| LV Latvia | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 6K | — | Abele | 14 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Abele | 20 |
| BZ Belize | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Abele | 1 |
| MW Malawi | #723 | — | — | — | Abele | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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)Ābele is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Rožu dzimtas augļu koks (ģints "Malus") ar kuplu, plašu lapotni, baltsārtiem ziediem, apaļiem vai ieapaļiem, parasti sulīgiem augļiem, 54 sugas, Latvijā savvaļā konstatēta 1 suga (mežābele), 16 sugas introducētas, no tām 2 pāriet savvaļā, pasaulē kultuvē ~10 tk šķirņu, Latvijā dārzos un kolekcijās ~500 šķirņu
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Latviešu mitoloģijā - ābele ir mātes simbols, tai nedrīkst ne zarus lauzt, ne tās ziedus vainagos pīt
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Seno latgaļu apdzīvots apgabals starp Abreni, Berezni un Jersikas zemēm
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, apdzīvota vieta (vidējciems) Kuldīgas novada Pelču pagastā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Ādolfs Ābeleb. 1889LVLatvian conductor and composer (1889-1967)
- Karlis Abeleb. 1896LVLatvian botanist (1896 - 1961)
- Alma Ābeleb. 1907LVLatvian actor (1907-1984)
- Gaida Ābeleb. 1931LVLatvian biologist
- Lauris Ābeleb. 1980LVLatvian screenwriter
- Raitis Abeleb. 1983LVLatvian film producer
- Jeļena Ābeleb. 1986LVLatvian athletics competitor
- Jānis Ābeleb. 1990LVLatvian film producer
- Anton Abeleb. 1992SESwedish Parliament member
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ābele mean, and where does it come from?
- apple tree (gen. Malus) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Ābele?
- In the etymology graph, Ābols is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Ābele have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.4 thousand people named Ābele in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled abele.
- How common is the name Ābele?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,326 people named Ābele in 2010, about 1 in 251 thousand residents.
- How common is Ābele compared with other names?
- In Malawi, Ābele is the 723rd most common surname of 6,972 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/%C4%81beleThe 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, “Ābele” — the 723rd most common surname in Malawi. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.