Last name origins & meanings:
- English: from a variant of the medieval female personal name
Mab(be), a short form of Middle English, Old French
Amabel (from Latin amabilis ‘loveable’). This has
survived into the 20th century in the short form
Mabel.
- English: possibly from an unattested Old English male
personal name, Mappa.
- English: from Old Welsh map,
mab ‘son’, which was used as a distinguishing epithet.
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