Entry № 44 · Ethiopian origin

Abeba Abeba — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-BEH-bah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Ethiopian
Meaning
"Flower"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Amharic)

A name that means "flower".

Abeba (አበባ) is the Amharic word for "flower." The Ethiopian capital is Addis Ababa ("new flower"), founded in 1886. A traditional Ethiopian feminine name.

Abeba is widely used in Ethiopia.

Flower. The Ethiopian Addis Ababa.

The name in its native script.

አበባ
Transliteration
Abeba
Pronunciation
/ əˈbɛ.bə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Abeba stands.

Abeba does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Abebas before her.

Real people
Abeba Aregawi
Ethiopian-Swedish runner.
born 1990
In fiction
Abeba
Common in Ethiopian fiction.

Names connected to Abeba.

The number behind Abeba.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Abeba reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.