as a Last Name
- 9,588
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Mcnabb
Meaning & Origins
Scottish and northern Irish: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac an Aba(dh) ‘son of the abbot’. In Scotland, monasteries often had hereditary lay abbots, who were not bound by rules of celibacy. The McNabs seem to have originated at the monastery of St. Faolan in Strathfillan.
| 3,227th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 9,588
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Tennessee
- has the most people named Mcnabb per capita
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