Abel (first name)
Abel is a male given name and family name . In the Low German- speaking area, Abel is a female given name as the short form of Apollonia .
Origin and meaning
Abel ( Hebrew : "breath", "transience") is a name that comes from the Bible . There Abel is the second son of Adam and Eve .
In the Middle Ages Abel was also a short form of Albrecht . His feminine form is Abelina .
Name days
Name day is the
- August 1st
- August 5th : Saint Abel of Reims (Catholic)
- December 9 : Abel (biblical figure)
Well-known namesake
- Abel (Denmark) (1218–1252), Danish king
- Abel Antón (* 1962), Spanish long-distance runner
- Abel Braga (* 1952), Brazilian soccer player and coach
- Abel Carlevaro (1916–2001), Uruguayan composer and guitarist
- Abel Dufrane (1880–1960), Belgian butterfly researcher
- Abel Eppens (1534 – approx. 1590), Frisian chronicler
- Abel Faivre (1867–1945), French painter, poster artist, lithographer, illustrator and caricaturist
- Abel Ferrara (* 1951), American film director
- Abel Ferreira (composer) (1915–1980), Brazilian composer, clarinetist and saxophonist
- Abel Fernando Moreira Ferreira (* 1978), Portuguese football player
- Abel Gance (1889–1981), French film director
- Abel Goumba (1926–2009), politician of the Central African Republic
- Abel Barrera Hernández (* around 1960), Mexican priest, anthropologist and human rights activist
- Abel Jacob Herzberg (1893–1989), Dutch lawyer and writer
- Abel Korzeniowski (* 1972), Polish film composer
- Abel Lukšić (1826–1901), a Croatian journalist, editor, editor and publisher
- Abel Mathieu (around 1520, † after 1572), French lawyer and Romance scholar
- Abel Meeropol (1903–1986), American songwriter and writer
- Abel Muzorewa (1925-2010), Bishop and Prime Minister of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia
- Abel Pacheco (* 1933), President in Costa Rica
- Abel Paz (1921–2009), Spanish anarchist and writer
- Abel Antonio Pujol Jiménez (1913–1995), Mexican artist
- Abel Resino (* 1960), Spanish football coach
- Abel Salazar (1917–1995), Mexican actor, film director and film producer
- Abel Seyler (1730–1800), Hamburg merchant, later actor and theater director of Swiss origin
- Abel Janzoon Tasman (1603–1659), Dutch navigator
- Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, stage name: The Weeknd (* 1990), Canadian R&B singer
- Abel P. Upshur (1790-1844), American politician
- Abel Wolman (1892-1989), American engineer
- Abel Xavier (* 1972), Portuguese football player
Abel as fictional people:
- Abel with the harmonica , novel by Manfred Hausmann
See also
- Abel (disambiguation)
Web links
Wiktionary: Abel - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Individual evidence
- ↑ Examples from church registers in Franz Schubert: Wedding registers from the oldest church registers in Schleswig-Holstein - From the beginnings to the year 1704 . Volume 4 The Probsteien Kiel - Plön - Segeberg . Goettingen 1987
- ↑ First name list of the Föhr-Amrum office (PDF)