The Abbe surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,368 people carried this name — #19,697 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 217,400 people counted. That is up 3% from 1,333 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Abbe surname
Variant of Abbey.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Abbe» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 298 people named Abbe.
12 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 33 départements, most often Côtes-d’Armor.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
66 people named Abbe live in Switzerland.
They live in 5 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Valais.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
Who carried it
People named Abbe,
with a public archive behind them.
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Rachel Abbe 1738–1795 -
James Abbe 1822–1889 · politician -
Cleveland Abbe 1838–1916 · astronomer -
Ernst Abbe 1840–1905 · astronomer -
Catherine Amory Bennett Abbe 1843–1920 -
Richard Abbe d. 2000
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Abbe.
- Abate 4,344 · U.S. census
- Abati 116 · U.S. census
- Abba 253 · U.S. census
- Abbas 4,974 · U.S. census
- Abbassi 434 · U.S. census
- Abbate 2,692 · U.S. census
- Abbo 509 · U.S. census
- Abboud 1,615 · U.S. census
- Abdallah 4,121 · U.S. census
- Abdelaziz 1,030 · U.S. census
- Abdelhadi 431 · U.S. census
- Abdelkader 412 · U.S. census
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