What is the meaning of the name Abel?

The meaning of the name Abel is "breath, vapour". The origin of the name is "Hebrew". The name Abel is mostly used as a boys name.

Right pronunciation of Abel

\a-bel\

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Abel is a really popular first name for boys (#485) and also really popular as a last name (#1774). Users of our site ranked the name with a 0.0 (0 vote(s)). Like or dislike the name by ranking this boys name above or write a comment on the name Abel.

How popular is the name Abel?

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The year 2015 was for Abel a very good year. In that year there were 3216 births with the name Abel. Find out if Abel is in the top 100 boys names 2015 or check all top 100 names for any State in any year!

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