Abbas
From Latin, carrying the sense of austere or stern, with a lion-like edge. About 127 Polish men hold it today, rare enough that most Poles have never met one.
Abbas Pronunciation
Abbas is pronounced AHB-bahs (/ˈabbas/).
What Abbas means
Where Abbas comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Abbas has two roots that happen to share a spelling. In Latin, abbas means abbot, taken from the Aramaic abba, or father, and it gave English the word abbot. The name people actually carry comes from Arabic, where Abbas describes someone austere and stern, an old byname for the lion. Polish gives that meaning as surowy, srogi.
The best-known bearer was al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib, an uncle of the Prophet Muhammad. His descendants founded the Abbasid Caliphate in 750, and it ruled from Baghdad for roughly five centuries. A lion-like name suited a dynasty of that reach.
It is a short name. In a Polish class register it sits apart from the Jakubs and Piotrs, a sign of family roots beyond Poland. The Latin line points to a monastery, the Arabic line to a lion, and both meet in surowy, srogi.
How many people are named Abbas
1 in 168080 men in Poland is named Abbas. 127 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2951 among male names.
Abbas as a middle name
Abbas is a first name for 127 men in Poland and a middle name for another 66, a 66/34 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 887th, between Samson (67) and Dung (66).
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#885 Paskal67
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#886 Samson67
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#887 Abbas66
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#888 Dung66
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#889 Flawiusz66