• Total is the total number of people with that surname.
• Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
• Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
• Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

All of these are approximate figures, and the current figures especially so. The 1881 census figures are correct for what was recorded on the census, but we don't really know how accurate it was. At least, though the 1881 figures won't change, as it's a snapshot of a point in time. The current figures, by contrast, are variable according to births, deaths, migration and marriages, so the values shown here are only a best approximation to whatever was the case when the underlying data was collated and will not be the same as whatever the values are right now.

'N/A' indicates that we don't have data for this name in that country or time (usually because it's quite uncommon there and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one there with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the UK as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ABLE.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

The most likely matches are shown first.

ABELL
ABLES
ABEL
APPLE
APPEL
CABLE
GABLE
ABLE
ABELA
ABELE
AVILA
AUBLE
AVALA
AUVIL
AUBEL
ZABLE
APPL
APPELLO
APPELL
AVELLA
AVELLO
MABLE
IBLE
HABLE
SABLE
EBLE
BABLE
WABLE
AVOLA
AVILLA
AVOLIO
APOLO
APOLLO
ABLER
ABBE
ABLAO
ABKE
ABILAY
ABILA
ABELS
ABELLA
ABELES
ABEE
ABUEL
ABUHL
ADLE
APLEY
APFEL
APELA
APEL

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

The following words are slight variants of ABLE that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.

ALBE ABEL BALE ABL ABLA ABLEA ABLEE ABLEI ABLEO