Ab

Where Ab comes from

Short form of Abner.
— Wiktionary's entry for Ab
  • 1 syllable
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #909 among boys — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1885
    Peak, #836
    6 babies named Ab — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1886
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1909
    Ab Tresling born
    field hockey player
  5. 1936
    Ab McDonald born
    Canadian ice hockey player
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given name Abner, from Hebrew, occasionally used as a formal given name.
Namesakes
  • Ab Tresling · field hockey player, 1909–1980
  • Ab McDonald · Canadian ice hockey player, 1936–2018
  • Ab Fafié · Dutch footballer and manager, 1941–2012
  • Ab Sluis · Dutch cyclist, born 1937
  • Ab Baars · Dutch tenor saxophonist and clarinetist, born 1955

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.