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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from a variant of the medieval female personal name Mab(be), a short form of Middle English, Old French Amabel (from Latin amabilis ‘loveable’). This has survived into the 20th century in the short form Mabel.
  • English : possibly from an unattested Old English male personal name, Mappa.
  • English : from Old Welsh map, mab ‘son’, which was used as a distinguishing epithet.

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