Abbot Names for Baby

Abbot names. 5 Abbot baby names for boys. Displaying for Abbot names 1-5. Adam is a popular Abbot baby name. Abbott, Fintan, Marmaduke and Mendel are uncommon Abbot baby names. Please click on each of these Abbot names for more details, or search for "abbot" for girls. Related searches: brother, hermit, monastic, monk, palmer, pilgrim, prior, religious.

Abbott ... An abbot is the head of a religious community of monks living in a monastery ... so the original bearers of this name (as a surname) may have worked for an abbot. Also ... the name may have originated as a teasing nickname for a man with the grave and pious attitude associated with an abbot ...

Adam ... The name was borne by a seventh-century Irish abbot of Fermo in Italy ...

Fintan ... Saint Fintan was an Irish abbot ...

Marmaduke ... The most famous of a number of saints named Maedoc was a sixth-century abbot of Clonmore in Ireland ...

Mendel ... was a 19th-century Austrian priest and abbot of an order of monks.

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