Abilene
English from Hebrew
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Updated Mon Apr 22 2024
Abilene Origin and Meaning
The name Abilene is a girl's name of English origin meaning "grass".
Abilene is a rarely used place name, mentioned as such in the New Testament, that combines the cowboy spunk of the Texas city with the midwestern morality of the Kansas town where Dwight D. Eisenhower spent his boyhood. Abilene is a much more untrodden path to the nickname Abbie/Abbie than the Top 10 Abigail.
In 1857, Eliza Hersey named the frontier village of Abilene, Kansas after a vast plain described in Luke's gospel.
Abilene is the title of a Sheryl Crow song, and the book The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate Dicamillo features a sweet character named Abilene.
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Abilene in Pop Culture
- AbileneTexas
- AbileneKansas, where Dwight D. Eisenhower grew up
- "17 in Abilene" song by country music singer Katie Armiger
- Abilenemain character in Newbery,Medal winning novel "Moon over Manifest"
- Abilene Tulanecharacter in "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane"
- Aibileen Clark (note different spelling)African American maid in Kathryn Stockett's novel and the film "The Help"