Abe

At the 2020 census, 2,914 Americans bore the surname Abe — 10,505th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 103,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,914
Rank: 10,505th
How common: 1 in 103,000
Per 100,000: 0.97

Where the name comes from

Origin Japanese

Borrowed from Japanese 阿部, Japanese 安部 or Japanese 安倍.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 59.6%
White, not Hispanic 17.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 9.5%
Black, not Hispanic 8.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.7%

Notable people called Abe

Shinzō Abe (1954–2022)Prime Minister of Japan from 2006–2007 and 2012–2020
Kōbō Abe (1924–1993)Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor
Yuki Abe (born 1981)Japanese association football player
Teruo Abe (2000–1999)Japanese association football player
Hiroki Abe (born 1999)Japanese association football player
Hiroyuki Abe (born 1989)Japanese association football player
Nobuyuki Abe (1875–1953)Japanese general and politician
Hifumi Abe (born 1997)Japanese judoka

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

Surnames like Abe

Also a first name

Abe has been given to 9,694 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1917. 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.