Abad

6,683 people in the United States were counted with the surname Abad in the 2020 census, making it the 5,085th most common in the country. That is about one person in 44,700.

By the numbers

People: 6,683
Rank: 5,085th
How common: 1 in 44,700
Per 100,000: 2.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

From Spanish, of occupational origin.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Abad described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 52.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 35.5%
White, not Hispanic 7.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Black, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Abad

Pacita Abad (1946–2004)painter
Diego Abad de Santillán (1897–1983)Spanish anarchist, author, economist
Mercedes Abad (born 1961)Spanish writer and journalist
Damien Abad (born 1980)French politician
Alejandro Abad (born 1962)Chilean-Spanish singer-songwriter and music producer, known for participating at the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest
Eileen Abad (born 1973)Venezuelan actress and model
Verónica Abad Rojas (born 1976)Ecuadorian politician and Former Vice President of Ecuador from 2023 to 2025

People named Abad with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Abad

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.