Ababa
loc · Amharic · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ababa is a name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Amharic and English, written in the Latin script.
- COColombia1 in 2.2M◐
- ESSpain1 in 2.9M
- USUnited States1 in 3M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈128 ●
- Sources
- 24 ●
- 1 in 2.9M ◐
across 2 countries
3.2K records
Official registry-verified
Spain
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Aba-Ba in PH Philippines.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 2
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 111 | 148 rec. | 1 in 3M | 154 | — | 22 |
| ES Spain | 17△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 2.9M | 17 | Ababa | 2 |
| CO Colombia | 15 | 9 rec. | — | — | Ababa | 3 |
| CL Chile | 12 | 2 rec. | — | — | Ababa | 2 |
| MX Mexico | 12 | 3 rec. | — | — | Ababa | 4 |
| BR Brazil | 6 | 1 rec. | — | — | Ababa | 1 |
| PH Philippines | 5 | 3K rec. | — | — | Aba-Ba | 24 |
| GY Guyana | — | — | — | 2 | — | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| ER Eritrea | — | — | — | #53 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | — | — | listed | — | — |
Roughly 111 people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 3M). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Amharic11K10%
- English3.4K3%
- Arabic6211%
- Italian2671%
- Hebrew2061%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Amharic | 10,538 | 10% |
| English | 3,351 | 3% |
| Arabic | 621 | 1% |
| Italian | 267 | 1% |
| Hebrew | 206 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
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.
Evidence●
Attested in 10 sources across 6 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 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 2 | #592 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 1 | #110 |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
| ER Eritrea | The page provides a list of the top 100 authentic Eritrean names along with their meanings, published by Kabalarian Phil | — | — | #53 |
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 2026-09-12 data build · 8 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ababa?
- We estimate roughly 128 people bear Ababa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ababa have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 111 people bear Ababa in the United States, more than in any other country in our records.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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 2026-09-12.