• Abebooks (formerly "Advanced Book Exchange"), an online marketplace for books
• Aber railway station (National Rail code: ABE), a rail station in the United Kingdom
• Aberdeen, Maryland (Amtrak station code: ABE), United States
• Adult Basic Education, a test to help adults improve English language reading, writing, and speaking skills, math skills, and problem-solving skills
• A.B.E. process, an industrial biochemical process that produces acetone, butanol, and ethanol
• Animal Behavior Enterprises, Skinnerian behaviorist enterprise that originated animal shows in amusement parks, television, and other venues.
• Adelaide Blue Eagles, a football (soccer) club from the Eastern Suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia. Associated with the local Nap community.
• Autonomous Benthic Explorer, a fully independent robotic explorer
• Lehigh Valley International Airport (IATA airport code: ABE), an airport in Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States
• Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton tri-city area, a name for Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, United States
• The Association of Business Executives, a British business and management qualifications provider
• Associação Brasileira de Estatística, a Brazilian scientific society
• Association of Building Engineers abe.org.uk

Abe is commonly used in English-speaking countries as a shortened form of the name "Abraham", or as a personal name in its own right.

• Abe Burrows (1910–1985), American playwright/director
• Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States
• Abe Vigoda (born 1921), American actor
• Abe Fortas (1910–1982), Associate U.S. Supreme Court Justice

The dialects of Abé are Tioffo, Morie, Abbey-Ve, and Kos

In 1995 there were estimated to be 170,000 speakers, primarily in the Department of Agboville.

His works have an edgy style due to, among other things, his not using a ruler while drawing as is usual for most anime-style art. He first gained fame in his work on the avant-garde anime Serial Experiments Lain. He is also responsible for the concept and character design for the series NieA under 7. He is the creator of the doujinshi Haibane Renmei which was then adapted into an anime.