ABEL  

Gender: M
Origin: Hebrew
Meaning: "breath"

Popularity in 2008: #360

The name of Adam and Eve's unfortunate younger son, compensates with positive connotations: capable, competent, ready and willing. It has literary connections to the novels of Dickens and Trollope, and is also one of the few well-known Old Testament names not plagued by overuse.

Variations:
Able, Abell, Avel, Abell, Able, Avel

Abel is being discussed in our message boards:

• Due in 1 week and fearing we've selected the wrong name.
• Ashley
• People named after something else
• Need suggestions - biblical or old man names
• Orphanage Game

Read Nameberry blog posts about Abel:

• EMMA'S DAUGHTERS