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.possibly from an unattested Old English male
personal name, Mappa.Welsh: from Old Welsh map,
mab ‘son’, which was used as a distinguishing epithet.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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