as a Last Name
- 5,067
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Abad
Meaning & Origins
Spanish: nickname from abad ‘priest’ (from Late Latin abbas ‘priest’, genitive abbatis, from the Aramaic word meaning ‘father’). The application is uncertain: it could be a nickname, an occupational name for the servant of a priest, or denote an (illegitimate) son of a priest.
| 6,718th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 5,067
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Hawaii
- has the most people named Abad per capita
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