Nabb Family History
Nabb Name Meaning
English (Lancashire): topographic name for someone who lived by a nab Middle English nabbe ‘hillock knoll’ (Old Norse nabbi ‘projecting peak hill’) or a habitational name from any of the many minor places in northern and eastern England named with this word for example Whalley Nab in Blackburn (Lancashire) Nab Scar in Rydal (Westmorland) and The Nab in Burgh Saint Margaret (Norfolk). English (Lancashire): alternatively it may be from the Middle English personal names Nabb and Napp which are probably parallels to Nobb and Nopp pet forms of Robert . Compare Nobbs . Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Aba(dh) ‘son of the abbot’ see McNab .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022