Abha

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Ava in US United States, AU Australia, TT Trinidad & Tobago and 15 more, Aabha in IN India, Abad in ES Spain and อาภา in TH Thailand.

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●

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Abha is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name919 records spelled Abha2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States

  Also written Ābhā

• Arabic given name872 records spelled Abha4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Saudi Arabia, Egypt

  Also written Äbhã, Abhā

• Hebrew given name46 records spelled Abha3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India

  Also written Abaha, אבהה

29 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Abha 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 Irish, alternative form of abhainn (“river”)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In wlo, father (term of address), daddy

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

• In nxg, cut oneself, wound

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

• In Latvian, pilsēta Saūda Arābijā (Abhā), Asīras mintakas administratīvais centrs, 201900 iedzīvotāju (2004. g.)

  as a word·Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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.

Over time●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 62 years between 1923–2014. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Aabha Paulb. 1987INnot in their usual nameIndian television and film actress (born 1987)
• Abha GandhiINgrandniece of M. K. Gandhi

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 120 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Abha?

We estimate roughly 277 thousand people bear Abha (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Abha have the most bearers?

We estimate about 257 thousand people bear Abha in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled ava.

How common is Abha compared with other names?

In Trinidad & Tobago, Abha is the 14th most common given name of 7,628 given names recorded there.

Is Abha a male or female name?

Abha is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Abha mean?

Recorded meaning: town, Saudi Arabia