Abra

Meaning & origin●(measured from records)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

How Abra is read●(measured from records)

Abra is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• English68%

  a narrow mountain or mesa pass

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  province, river, Philippines

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  v. ABERY

  as a name·A Dictionary of English Surnames

• Spanish6.4%

  small bay, inlet

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Other names spelled this way◐(inferred from the name graph)

Abra is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Àbrà, Abrà

57 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)

Abra is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Cebuano, Abra (a province of the Cordillera Administrative Region, Luzon, Philippines; capital: Bangued)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Irish, present subjunctive analytic of abair

  as a word·kaikki.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)

• Abra of Poitiersb. 339Roman Catholic nun and saint
• Abra Mooreb. 1969USAmerican musician
• Abrab. 1988PHFilipino hip hop artist
• Abra AmedomeTGpolitician
• Abra GrilliITItalian cataloguing and metadata librarian

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)

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Abra?

A machine transcription gives /æbɹə/ (IPA) for English.

What does the name Abra mean, and where does it come from?

a narrow mountain or mesa pass Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

In which country does Abra have the most bearers?

Mondonomo estimates about 6.8 thousand people named Abra in Togo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled abra.

How common is the name Abra?

In the United States, the national register counted 1,124 people named Abra in 2020, about 1 in 296 thousand residents.

How common is Abra compared with other names?

In Togo, Abra is the 420th most common given name of 1,075 given names recorded there.

Is Abra a male or female name?

Abra is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.