Given name · also Latin

Abíal

“breath, vapor; vanity”

Abíal is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew. It is used in Old Irish.

Original LatinAbel

Meaning & origin

What it means

Abíal goes back to Biblical Hebrew הֶבֶל (heḇel), meaning “breath, vapor; vanity.”

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Where it comes from

Abíal comes from Latin, and ultimately from Biblical Hebrew.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Latin Abel, from Biblical Hebrew הֶבֶל (heḇel, “breath, vapor; vanity”).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Abíal’s family of names

In Old Irish usage, Abíal was borrowed from the Latin form Abel.

Walk Abíal’s family in the name graph

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Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.

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Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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Biblical Hebrew · Biblical

Ábrahám

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Hebrew · Biblical

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“two fold majesty”

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>99% boys

Sibling ideas

Names that share Abíal’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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