Last name origins & meanings:
- English and Scottish: from Middle English abbott ‘abbot’
(Old English abbod) or Old French abet ‘priest’. Both
the Old English and the Old French term are derived from Late Latin
abbas ‘priest’ (genitive abbatis), from Greek
abbas, from Aramaic aba ‘father’. This was an
occupational name for someone employed in the household of or on the
lands of an abbot, and perhaps also a nickname for a sanctimonious
person thought to resemble an abbot. In the U.S. this name is also
sometimes a translation of a cognate or equivalent European name,
e.g. Italian Abate, Spanish Abad, or German
Abt.
- George Abbot from Yorkshire, England, settled in Andover, MA, in
1640; he had numerous prominent descendants. A certain George Abbott
(probably not the same man) died in Rowley, MA, in 1647. James Abbott
migrated from Somerset, England, to Long Island, NY, in the 17th
century.
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