indicate the level to which a name has been verified.Type Surname (from location)
Other Forms FormsNapp, Nobb, Nopp, Nobbs, Nabbe, Nabbi, McNab, Robert, Mac an Aba{dh}
Meaning & History
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.