Aba Surname
Approximately 76,887 people bear this surname
Aba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 25,405 | 1:6,973 | 829 |
| Philippines | 11,819 | 1:8,566 | 789 |
| Turkey | 6,574 | 1:11,838 | 1,527 |
| Cameroon | 4,817 | 1:4,312 | 518 |
| Ethiopia | 3,542 | 1:27,540 | 3,358 |
| Ivory Coast | 2,608 | 1:8,846 | 743 |
| Ghana | 2,563 | 1:10,543 | 1,407 |
| Algeria | 2,460 | 1:15,704 | 2,830 |
| Indonesia | 2,417 | 1:54,716 | 6,070 |
| Togo | 1,995 | 1:3,633 | 578 |
| Morocco | 1,465 | 1:23,533 | 3,669 |
| Egypt | 1,129 | 1:81,431 | 7,252 |
| Mauritania | 1,029 | 1:3,979 | 477 |
| Iran | 966 | 1:79,485 | 8,113 |
| Uganda | 899 | 1:43,425 | 5,457 |
| India | 736 | 1:1,042,208 | 43,486 |
| Niger | 570 | 1:33,670 | 1,865 |
| Gabon | 556 | 1:3,398 | 592 |
| Papua New Guinea | 537 | 1:15,184 | 1,469 |
| Benin | 442 | 1:23,384 | 3,142 |
| Malaysia | 411 | 1:71,762 | 5,196 |
| DR Congo | 383 | 1:192,897 | 19,402 |
| Guatemala | 359 | 1:44,799 | 2,168 |
| South Africa | 336 | 1:161,243 | 18,083 |
| Thailand | 289 | 1:244,423 | 41,424 |
| Solomon Islands | 269 | 1:2,156 | 183 |
| United States | 222 | 1:1,632,698 | 109,247 |
| Mexico | 191 | 1:649,875 | 10,382 |
| Congo | 184 | 1:27,115 | 2,911 |
| Israel | 160 | 1:53,485 | 6,974 |
| Saudi Arabia | 159 | 1:194,062 | 29,524 |
| Taiwan | 158 | 1:148,384 | 1,334 |
| Spain | 126 | 1:371,048 | 20,817 |
| Argentina | 122 | 1:350,356 | 27,444 |
| Pakistan | 105 | 1:1,701,370 | 17,526 |
| Afghanistan | 79 | 1:407,002 | 5,660 |
| Hungary | 77 | 1:127,484 | 11,841 |
| United Arab Emirates | 55 | 1:166,587 | 12,493 |
| Iraq | 52 | 1:673,493 | 9,953 |
| China | 39 | 1:35,059,527 | 1,855 |
| Ukraine | 39 | 1:1,167,249 | 102,683 |
| England | 38 | 1:1,466,265 | 63,675 |
| France | 36 | 1:1,845,076 | 161,051 |
| Italy | 36 | 1:1,698,797 | 84,491 |
| Venezuela | 36 | 1:839,002 | 13,477 |
| Brazil | 33 | 1:6,487,101 | 155,169 |
| Kuwait | 29 | 1:131,058 | 14,967 |
| Canada | 28 | 1:1,315,914 | 92,927 |
| Jordan | 28 | 1:315,801 | 11,232 |
| Germany | 24 | 1:3,354,394 | 150,996 |
| Netherlands | 18 | 1:938,176 | 63,634 |
| Denmark | 17 | 1:332,042 | 23,714 |
| Greece | 15 | 1:738,653 | 80,079 |
| Tunisia | 15 | 1:40,708 | 5,720 |
| Singapore | 13 | 1:423,669 | 18,211 |
| Palestine | 12 | 1:379,071 | 11,768 |
| Australia | 11 | 1:2,454,155 | 103,534 |
| Bahrain | 9 | 1:149,845 | 5,469 |
| Liberia | 9 | 1:489,837 | 23,279 |
| Mali | 9 | 1:1,885,448 | 1,868 |
| Qatar | 9 | 1:262,000 | 30,726 |
| Sri Lanka | 9 | 1:2,312,062 | 9,186 |
| Sweden | 9 | 1:1,094,084 | 81,336 |
| Belgium | 7 | 1:1,642,378 | 98,400 |
| Poland | 7 | 1:5,429,821 | 146,768 |
| Czechia | 5 | 1:2,126,694 | 115,412 |
| Chad | 4 | 1:3,398,050 | 7,703 |
| Cuba | 4 | 1:2,880,679 | 10,064 |
| Rwanda | 4 | 1:2,841,244 | 3,611 |
| Senegal | 4 | 1:3,644,836 | 6,064 |
| Somalia | 4 | 1:3,363,015 | 5,093 |
| Albania | 3 | 1:971,352 | 22,477 |
| Burkina Faso | 3 | 1:6,117,367 | 22,156 |
| Chile | 3 | 1:5,872,158 | 52,204 |
| Faroe Islands | 3 | 1:16,333 | 1,308 |
| Russia | 3 | 1:48,041,019 | 639,186 |
| Switzerland | 3 | 1:2,737,638 | 105,941 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2 | 1:1,768,201 | 16,841 |
| Peru | 2 | 1:15,892,062 | 51,966 |
| Romania | 2 | 1:10,038,935 | 80,612 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| American Samoa | 1 | 1:55,758 | 3,072 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Botswana | 1 | 1:2,186,929 | 30,250 |
| Cambodia | 1 | 1:15,487,146 | 14,824 |
| Cayman Islands | 1 | 1:63,893 | 2,384 |
| Central African Republic | 1 | 1:4,515,390 | 1,196 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 1:4,780,069 | 13,345 |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1:884,876 | 13,055 |
| Dominican Republic | 1 | 1:10,432,932 | 36,508 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| El Salvador | 1 | 1:6,343,888 | 8,415 |
| Eritrea | 1 | 1:4,751,901 | 911 |
| Georgia | 1 | 1:3,745,545 | 47,852 |
| Guinea | 1 | 1:11,833,817 | 3,268 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1:7,335,483 | 16,643 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Kiribati | 1 | 1:113,407 | 1,341 |
| Laos | 1 | 1:6,588,323 | 1,961 |
| Latvia | 1 | 1:2,050,046 | 60,295 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Moldova | 1 | 1:3,561,368 | 78,271 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Oman | 1 | 1:3,687,971 | 14,390 |
| Panama | 1 | 1:3,912,258 | 17,195 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Syria | 1 | 1:19,301,022 | 22,457 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 1 | 1:1,363,975 | 22,013 |
| Uruguay | 1 | 1:3,431,758 | 38,295 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
The alternate forms: Abá (6) & Abà (2) are calculated separately.
Aba (81,748) may also be a first name.
Aba Demographics
Average Aba Salary in
United States
$50,940 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Aba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Aba Come From? nationality or country of origin
Aba (Arabic: ابع, Bengali: এবা, Georgian: აბა, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺁﺏ, Hindi: आबा, Marathi: आबा, Oriya: ଅବା, Tibetan: ཨ་བི་) occurs most in Nigeria. It may occur as: Abá or Abà. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Aba? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 7,395th most commonly used surname at a global level It is held by around 1 in 94,783 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 64 percent of Aba reside; 45 percent reside in West Africa and 42 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 12,147th most frequently used first name world-wide It is held by 81,748 people.
Aba is most commonly held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 25,405 people, or 1 in 6,973. In Nigeria it is most prevalent in: Benue, where 21 percent are found, Enugu, where 12 percent are found and Kano, where 11 percent are found. Without taking into account Nigeria this surname exists in 116 countries. It is also common in The Philippines, where 15 percent are found and Turkey, where 9 percent are found.
Aba Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those bearing the Aba surname is principally Orthodox (75%) in Russia and Christian (59%) in Nigeria.
In The United States those bearing the Aba last name are 12.15% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 65.38% registered with the political party.
The amount Aba earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 58.05% less than the national average, earning R 99,684 per year; in United States they earn 18.06% more than the national average, earning $50,940 USD per year and in Canada they earn 21.34% less than the national average, earning $39,083 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Aba Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Aba in the Georgian language | ||
| აბა | aba | - |
| Aba in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཨ་བི་ | abi | - |
| Aba in the Bengali language | ||
| এবা | eba | - |
| Aba in the Oriya language | ||
| ଅବା | aba | 82.26 |
| ଆବା | aba | 14.52 |
| ଅବ | aba | 3.23 |
| Aba in the Marathi language | ||
| आबा | aba | 82.22 |
| अबा | aba | 17.7 |
| अब | aba | 0.08 |
| Aba in the Hindi language | ||
| आबा | aba | 65.32 |
| अबा | aba | 22.07 |
| अब | aba | 8.11 |
| ाब | aba | 1.8 |
| एबा | eba | 0.9 |
| ाबा | aba | 0.9 |
| Aba in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺁﺏ | ab | 59.89 |
| ﺍﺏ | ab | 12.3 |
| ﺁﺑﻪ | abh | 10.52 |
| ﺃﺏ | ab | 5.53 |
| ﺁﺑﺎ | aba | 3.74 |
| ﺍﺑﺎ | aba | 1.96 |
| ﺃﺑﺎ | aba | 1.43 |
| ﺃﺑﻪ | abh | 1.25 |
| ﺍﺑﻪ | abh | 0.89 |
| ﻋﺒﻪ | bh | 0.71 |
| ﺑﺎﺏ | bab | 0.36 |
| ﻋﺎﺑﻪ | abh | 0.18 |
| ﺍﺑﺎﻩ | abah | 0.18 |
| ﻋﺎﺏ | ab | 0.18 |
| ﺀﺍﺏ | ab | 0.18 |
| ﺁﺑﺎﺀ | aba | 0.18 |
| ﺍﺑﻲ | aby | 0.18 |
| Aba in the Arabic language | ||
| ابع | ab | - |
| بعا | ba | - |
| عبا | ba | - |
| باع | ba | - |
| با | ba | - |
| عبّا | ba | - |
| لابا | laba | - |
| ابا | aba | - |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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