Abbas

7,132 people in the United States were counted with the surname Abbas in the 2020 census, making it the 4,803rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 41,900.

By the numbers

People: 7,132
Rank: 4,803rd
How common: 1 in 41,900
Per 100,000: 2.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Arabic

From Arabic عَبَّاس (“one who frowns a lot; untamed lion”), from عَبَسَ (“to frown”), the title of the eightieth sura of the Qur'.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 46.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 40.7%
Black, not Hispanic 6.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 2.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.07%

Notable people called Abbas

Mahmoud Abbas (born 1935)president of the Palestinian Authority since 2005
Abd Allah ibn Abbas (619–688)7th-century Islamic scholar
Ferhat Abbas (1899–1985)Algerian politician (1899-1985), President of Provisional Government of Algeria, president of the National Constitutional Assembly of Algeria
Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (1914–1987)film director, screenwriter, novelist, and journalist
Mansour Abbas (born 1974)Arab-Israeli dentist and politician
Walid Abbas (born 1985)Emirati football player
Imran Abbas Naqvi (born 1977)Pakistani actor and model
Bassim Abbas (born 1982)Iraqi football player

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

Surnames like Abbas

Also a first name

Abbas has been given to 1,843 American babies as a first name since 1975, peaking in 2018. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.