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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from a pet form of the medieval female personal name Mab(be), a short form of Middle English or Old French Amabel (from Latin amabilis ‘lovable’). This has survived into the 20th century as a personal name in the short form Mabel.

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