Ababa
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɑbəbə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ababa is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Spain.
- COColombia
- CLChile
- ESSpain
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 26 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 2
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ababa counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
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 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
Ababa 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 Akan, abdb^wd, pi. m-, maiden, young woman, married or not, who has not yet bom a child, or only one or two ; syn. abeaf6. b^bababa, adv. profusely, said of raining; cf.osu. baba, babac, red. v., s.h&, bae, anim ababae, anobabae. bab^ddm, an army in dispersion; wgye b., syn. wgbg pete. Babae-ntwa, pr.n. an epithet of the Asantes; cf. Bae. Q-bdbaniii, pi. m-, son. Q-bdbarimd, pi. ra-, son
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In Latin, a female given name, the Alan mother of the late Roman Emperor Maximinus Thrax (c. 173–238)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In hnn, low; short (of persons or objects)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, "Expresión con que se denota infantilidad o senilidad mental. Ababa nok ni ala, ori sinistu deiran! " Etxba Eib. .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 154 | #119,015 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 111 | #148,347 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 17 | #91,572 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Ababa?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɑbəbə/ (IPA) for Amharic.
- In which country does Ababa have the most bearers?
- Ababa is most frequently recorded in Spain, where it is most often spelled ababa.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ababaThe 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, “Ababa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.