Abe
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Patronymischer Familienname zu einem Rufnamen mit ahd
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Abe is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- GDGrenada1 in 57K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 62K
- FIFinland1 in 72K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 402 (measured from records)
- 1 in 57K (inferred from the name graph)
3,425 people
Highest-authority source
Grenada
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Abé in AU Australia.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Patronymischer Familienname zu einem Rufnamen mit ahd. adal 'Geschlecht, Adel'. 360 Belege.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Abe 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 3,425 | 1 in 62K | 3.4K | — | 5 |
| US United States | 2,938 | 1 in 113K | 5.2K | Abe | 402 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 159K | 3 | Abe | 101 |
| CA Canada | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 105K | 2 | — | 127 |
| FR France | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 209K | 49 | — | 6 |
| AU Australia | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 91K | 1 | Abé | 108 |
| FI Finland | 77 | 1 in 72K | 77 | — | 7 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 97K | 6 | — | 1 |
| GD Grenada | 2 | 1 in 57K | 2 | — | 1 |
3,425 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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)
Abe is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Short form of Abraham.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
1 Jewish (two syllables): Yiddish name, from Aramaic abba father, which was used as a personal name in Talmudic times instead of ABRAHAM . 2 Jewish and English (one syllable): short form of ABRAHAM . Top
as a word
In pam, accompany; live together, stay together; friend, companion (used as a term of address)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Dutch, a male given name, West Frisian variant of Albert and Abel
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, A diminutive of the male given name Abraham, from Hebrew.
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)
- Abe Burrowsb. 1910USAmerican dramatist and playwright (1910-1985)
- Abe Lenstrab. 1920NLDutch footballer (1920-1985)
- Abe Vigodab. 1921USAmerican actor (1921–2016)
- Kōbō Abeb. 1924JPJapanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor
- Shintarō Abeb. 1924JPJapanese politician (1924-1991)
- Shinzō Abeb. 1954JPPrime Minister of Japan from 2006–2007 and 2012–2020 (1954–2022)
- Toshiko Abeb. 1959JPJapanese politician
- Akie Abeb. 1962JPwife of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe
- Yoshitoshi ABeb. 1971JPJapanese graphic artist
- Hifumi Abeb. 1997JPJapanese judoka
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)
Attested in 65 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3.4K | #3,064 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3K | #9,930 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.9K | #10,837 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.9K | #10,505 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 77 | #15,644 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 49 | — |
| PG Papua New Guinea | PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022) | — | 3 | #33 |
| GD Grenada | Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025 | 2025 | 2 | #221 |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- In which country does Abe have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 3.4 thousand people named Abe, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Abe most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Abe is densest in Grenada — about 1 in 57 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- What does the name Abe mean?
- Recorded meaning: Patronymischer Familienname zu einem Rufnamen mit ahd.
- How common is the name Abe?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 3,425 people named Abe, about 1 in 62 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/abeThe 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, “Abe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.