Abebe
org · Latin script
Meaning: Amharic: “he has flowered/flourished/grown”
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Abebe is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Ethiopia.
- ETEthiopia
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.
- Ethiopia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 226 (measured from records)
no count published
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled አበቤ 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)Amharic: “he has flowered/flourished/grown.”
Cited for this meaning 1
- African Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Abebe counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ET Ethiopia | — | — | አበቤ | 56 |
| US United States | — | 3.2K | — | 226 |
| NO Norway | — | 192 | — | 21 |
| SE Sweden | — | 183 | — | 23 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 115 | — | 6 |
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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Abebe 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.
he has flowered/flourished/grown.
as a nameAfrican Names
In Akan, As. yrasshoppcry hectle (x huitetfly), — P. 11. o-be-datii
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
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)- Abiye Abebeb. 1916ETSon-in-law of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia and Politician of Ethiopia
- Adanech Abebeb. 1950ETEthiopian politician; current Mayor of Addis Ababa
- Mihret Abebeb. 1988ETMiss Ethiopia
- Moet Abebeb. 1989GBmedia personality and entertainer
- Rediet Abebeb. 1991ETEthiopian computer scientist
- Nathan Abebeb. 1997ETEthiopian athletics competitor
- Mekides Abebeb. 2001ETEthiopian athlete
- Daniel AbebeUSAmerican lawyer
- Abebe Aemro SelassieETDirector of African Department
- Solomon Befekadu AbebeGBresearcher
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)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.2K | #9,595 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2K | #14,913 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 905 | #25,610 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 192 | #8,229 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 183 | #4,506 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 115 | #9,900 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- What does the name Abebe mean, and where does it come from?
- Amharic: “he has flowered/flourished/grown.” Recorded by African Names.
- In which country does Abebe have the most bearers?
- Abebe is most frequently recorded in Ethiopia, where it is most often spelled አበቤ.
What do you want to know about Abebe?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/abebeThe 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, “Abebe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.