Abba (given name)
Abba is a form of ab, meaning "father" in many Semitic languages. It is used as a given name, but was also used as a title or honorific for religious scholars or leaders.
Persons with the given name Abba, or who are known by that title
Jewish religious personalities
- Rabbi Abba, religious scholar
- Abba of Acre, religious scholar
- Abba Arika, Babylonian religious scholar
- Abba bar Abba, Babylonian religious scholar
- Abba bar Abina, Palestinian religious scholar
- Abba bar Zabdai, Palestinian religious scholar
- Abba ben Joseph bar Ḥama, Babylonian religious scholar known in the Talmud as Rava
- Abba Mordechai Berman, Polish rabbi and religious scholar
- Abba Hilkiah, Hasidic sage
- Abba Hillel Silver, U.S. Rabbi and Zionist leader
- Abba Hoshaya of Turya, pious wool-washer
- Abba Jose ben Hanan, sage and tanna
- Abba Judan, philanthropist
- Abba Mari, French rabbi
- Abba Mari ben Simson Anatoli, French scholar and translator of Arabic texts
- Abba Yudan, Palestinian religious scholar
- Raba (Rabbah) Bar Jeremiah, Talmudist
Jimma rulers
- Abba Bok'a, a ruler of the Kingdom of Jimma in what is today southwestern Ethiopia
- Abba Gomol, ruler of the Kingdom of Jimma 1862–78; son of Abba Bok'a
- Abba Jifar I, king of the Kingdom of Jimma
- Abba Jifar II, king of the Kingdom of Jimma
- Abba Jofir, Ethiopian aristocrat briefly king of the Kingdom of Jimma
- Abba Magal, Oromo leader, father of Abba Jifar I, founder of the Kingdom of Jimma
Others
- Abba (count), Frisian count
- Abba Thulle, ibedul of Koror
- Abba Ahimeir, Russian Jewish journalist, historian, and Zionist
- Abba Cohen, American Orthodox Jewish advocate
- Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat and politician, and President of the Weizmann Institute of Science
- Abba Gerasimus, Lycian Christian monk and abbot revered as a saint
- Abba Gindin, Finnish/Israeli ice hockey player
- Abba Habib, Nigerian politician
- Abbot "Abbie" Hoffman, American activist whose Hebrew name was Abba
- Abba Hushi, Israeli politician
- Abba Kovner, Lithuanian/Israeli Jewish poet, writer, and partisan leader
- Abba Kyari, Nigerian military officer, governor, and business leader
- Abba P. Lerner, American economist
- Abba Musa Rimi, Nigerian politician, governor of Kaduna State
- Abba Goold Woolson, American writer