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abbas Name Meaning and History

  1. Muslim (widespread throughout the Muslim world): from the Arabic personal name ?Abbas, literally ‘stern’, ‘austere’. ?Abbas was the name of an uncle (died 652) of the Prophet Muhammad, the ancestor of the Abbasid dynasty (see Abbasi).
  2. German: Latinized form of Abt ‘abbot’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of abbas Families in the US in 1920
Number of abbas families
 17-32
 6-16		 1-5
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 7 - Messages: 24
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Dollie Abbas Kardoes rbell 1
Antje (Anna) Abbas (1894-1977) TLHoper 0
Abbas from Northern Iowa RJVanGerpen 15
Ancestors of Jan Abbas, married to Wupke Zuurman rptrs1 0
Dollie Kardoes rbell 0
Abbas Blair Co Pennsylvania Circa Mid 1800's Doug Srock 0
Anna Abbas Jim Mello 1
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