Find out how popular the last name Abero is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Abero.

Abero, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Abero surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Abero in America

Abero is the 119508th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Abero surname appeared 145 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 people would have the surname Abero.

The history of the last name Abero

The surname ABERO is believed to have originated in the Basque region of northern Spain and southwestern France during the medieval period. It is thought to derive from the Basque words "abe" meaning "river" and "erro" meaning "bank" or "shore," suggesting the name may have referred to someone who lived near a riverbank.

One of the earliest recorded instances of the name appears in the Codex Calixtinus, a 12th-century manuscript detailing the routes and legends of the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage. An entry from 1134 mentions a certain Martinus Abero, a pilgrim from the town of Vitoria in Álava, Spain.

In the 13th century, the name ABERO can be found in several historical documents from the Kingdom of Navarre. A merchant named Pedro Abero is listed in the city records of Pamplona in 1254, and a landowner named Sancho Abero is mentioned in a charter from the village of Puente la Reina in 1289.

During the 14th and 15th centuries, the name spread to other parts of Spain, particularly Castile and Aragon. Notable bearers of the name include Juan Abero, a soldier who fought in the Reconquista under King Alfonso XI of Castile (1311-1350), and Beatriz Abero, a noblewoman from Zaragoza who inherited substantial estates in 1472.

In the 16th century, the ABERO name appears to have made its way to the New World, with several individuals bearing the name among the early Spanish settlers in Mexico and Peru. One such individual was Hernán Abero, a conquistador who accompanied Hernán Cortés on his expedition to conquer the Aztec Empire in 1519.

Other notable individuals with the surname ABERO include Miguel Abero, a renowned painter from Seville who lived in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, and Catalina Abero, a Basque-Spanish nun who founded several convents in New Spain (present-day Mexico) in the mid-17th century.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Abero

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Abero.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Abero was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Abero was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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