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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from Abele (a pet form of the Yiddish personal name Abe (from Hebrew ab ‘father’) or of Abraham) + Yiddish possessive -s.
  • Dutch : variant of Abele.

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