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

1. ↑ 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
2. ↑ First name list of the Föhr-Amrum office (PDF)