Given name & surname · also Irish
Mcnabb
“son of the abbot”
McNabb is a surname from Irish, ultimately from Scottish Gaelic.
Meaning & origin
What it means
McNabb goes back to Scottish Gaelic Mac an Abadh, meaning “son of the abbot.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
McNabb comes from Irish, and ultimately from Scottish Gaelic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Scottish Gaelic Mac an Abadh (“son of the abbot”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Mcnabb’s family of names
In English usage, Mcnabb as a surname has a related form in NAPP.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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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