Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Abo is a given name, most frequently recorded in Egypt, where it is the 31st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Arabic and German, written in the Latin script.
rarermore common
SYSyria1 in 344◐
EGEgypt1 in 404
SASaudi Arabia1 in 1.5K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
Locally spelled Abuin IN India, MY Malaysia, อาบูin TH Thailand, Აბოin GE Georgia and Абоin RU Russia.
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.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Related names5 related names◐
Names built on it
5
Surnames and later names derived from it
Abo
Relations come from the etymology graph; the language, country and size beside each name are how that name is actually used in the corpus. Click any name to open it.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
Arabic216K82%
German5.7K2%
Turkish5.7K2%
English5.4K2%
Spanish3.6K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
Name
Records
Note
Arabic
216,099
82%
German
5,675
2%
Turkish
5,664
2%
English
5,366
2%
Spanish
3,562
1%
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◐
Abo is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.
a separate given name1.0K records spelled Abo6 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, India, Ethiopia, Pakistan
Also written Åbo, Abō, Abö, Abó
Romanian given name971 records spelled Abo8 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Syria, Lebanon, Israel, United Kingdom
Also written Àbő, Âbő, Åbő, Abõ, Ăbő
Urdu given name820 records spelled Abo7 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Syria, Pakistan, United States, Türkiye
Also written Ăbő, Ãbo, Àbõ, Ãbö, Åbo
Danish surname770 records spelled Abo27 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, Syria, Sweden
Languages: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish
Also written Aabo, Turku, Türkü, Àbo, Ābô
Amharic given name728 records spelled Abo3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Ethiopia, Syria, United States, South Africa
Also written አቦ, Äbo
47 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●
Abo is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Akan, dill, ifif [bo din] F, praise. Wo na abodin nhina yg wo dea, all praise belongs (is due) to thee
as a word·Dictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In lua, theirs. This refers only to nouns of class I.
as a word·Grammar and Dictionary of the Buluba-Lulua Language
In German, clipping of Abonnement (“subscription”)
as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, first-person singular present indicative of abar
as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bik, ash (the solid remains of a fire), cinder
as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In wew, to scoop, to scoop up with cupped hands
as a word·kaikki.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.
Over time●
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Abo in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 2008–2020
Year
records
2008
10
2009
10
2010
11
2011
10
2012
11
2013
13
2014
13
2015
14
2016
18
2017
19
2018
18
2019
19
2020
17
SESCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 13 years between 2008–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
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).
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 · 96 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
How common is the name Abo?
We estimate roughly 4.5 thousand people bear Abo (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Abo have the most bearers?
Abo is most frequently recorded in Egypt, where it is most often spelled abo.
How common is Abo compared with other names?
In Egypt, Abo is the 31st most common given name of 72,792 given names recorded there.
Is Abo a male or female name?
Abo is a male 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.
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About this data
● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated
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 pageMondonomo, “Abo” — the 31st most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.