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).German: Latinized form of Abt ‘abbot’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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