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abbas Name Meaning and History

  1. Muslim (widespread throughout the Muslim world): from the Arabic personal name ?Abbas, literally ‘stern’, ‘austere’. ?Abbas was the name of an uncle (died 652) of the Prophet Muhammad, the ancestor of the Abbasid dynasty (see Abbasi).
  2. German: Latinized form of Abt ‘abbot’.

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abbas Family Facts

Distribution of abbas Families in the US in 1920
Number of abbas families
 17-32
 6-16
 1-5
 0
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