The surname Abades was first found in the Basque region of northern Spain. Abadía, named after the town's proximity to an abandoned abbey in the next town, is a small municipality found in the province of Cáceres.
Of note was Juan de la Abadía el Viejo ( fl. 1470-1498), a Spanish painter in the gothic Spanish- Flemish style.
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Spelling variations of this family name include: Abad, Abbad, Abade, Abat, Abades, Abadal, Abadía, Abadia, de Abadía, de Abadia, de la Abadía, de la Abadia and many more.
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Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Domingo Abad de Zurbano, who sailed to America in 1517; Miguel Abad sailed to the Spanish Main in 1534; and Martín Abad sailed to Peru in 1583. Later migrants included Marí.