Abbe
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Lallname; from a reduplicated baby syllable
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female
- Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/æˈbeɪ/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Abbe is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 5.8K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 109K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 210Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 240 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.8K (inferred from the name graph)
1,773 people
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)Locally spelled Abbé in CM Cameroon.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Lallname; from a reduplicated baby syllable.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Abbe 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | 1,773 | 1 in 5.8K | 1.8K | Abbe | 19 |
| US United States | 1,308 | 1 in 254K | 1.4K | Abbe | 240 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 206K | listed | Abbe | 80 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 432K | 1 | — | 2 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 997K | — | Abbe | 26 |
| CM Cameroon | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 185K | — | Abbé | 2 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Abbe | 21 |
| FI Finland | 51 | 1 in 109K | 75 | — | 4 |
1,773 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)Abbe is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Patronymischer Familienname zu einem Rufnamen mit ahd. adal 'Geschlecht, Adel'. 69 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In Swedish, a diminutive of the male given names Abraham, Albin, or Albert
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In wew, to lean on
as a wordkaikki.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)- Hillel Abbe Shapirob. 1909ZASouth African forensic pathologist (1909-1984)
- Abbe Schmidb. 1922DEGerman architect in Tübingen
- Abbe Mowshowitzb. 1939USAmerican computer scientist (1939-)
- Abbe Ravenb. 1953USTV executive
- Abdoulaye Ibrahimb. 1986TGnot in their usual nameTogolese footbeller
- Abbe BrownGBintellectual property scholar
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)34 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Abbe mean, and where does it come from?
- Lallname; from a reduplicated baby syllable. Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What are other forms of the name Abbe?
- In the etymology graph, Alberto, Albert and Adalberto are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Abbe?
- In English /æˈbeɪ/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Abbe a male or female name?
- Abbe is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female; Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Abbe have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Abbe, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled abbe.
- Where is Abbe most common?
- Abbe is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.8 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Abbe?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 1,773 people named Abbe, about 1 in 5.8 thousand 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/abbeThe 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, “Abbe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.