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. (The word abbot has the same root.)
Persons with the given name Abba, or who are known by that title
Jewish/Babylonian/Palestinian religious scholars
- Abba of Acre (3rd century), Jewish religious scholar
- Abba Arika (175-247), Jewish/Babylonian religious scholar
- Abba bar Abba (2nd-3rd century), Jewish/Babylonian religious scholar
- Abba bar Zabdai (3rd century), Jewish/Palestinian religious scholar
- Abba ben Joseph bar Ḥama (270-350), Jewish/Babylonian religious scholar known in the Talmud as Rava
- Abba Mordechai Berman (1919-2005), Polish Jewish rabbi and religious scholar
- Abba Hilkiah (1st century), Jewish Hasidic sage
- Abba Jose ben Hanan (1st century), Jewish sage and tanna
- Abba Mari (13th-14th century), French/Jewish rabbi
- Abba Mari ben Simson Anatoli (c. 1194-1256), a French/Jewish scholar and translator of Arabic texts
- Raba (Rabbah) Bar Jeremiah (Also called "Abba"), a Jewish Talmudist
Horse names of Jimma rulers
- Abba Bok'a (died 1862), 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 (ruled 1830 - c. 1855) and Abba Jifar II (ruled 1878-1932), kings of the Kingdom of Jimma
- Abba Jofir, Ethiopian aristocrat briefly (1932) king of the Kingdom of Jimma
- Abba Magal (c. 1800), Oromo leader, father of Abba Jifar I, founder of the Kingdom of Jimma
Others
- Abba (count), a Frisian count
- Abba Ahimeir (1897-1962), Russian Jewish journalist, historian, and Zionist
- Abba Eban (1915–2002), Israeli diplomat and politician, and President of the Weizmann Institute of Science
- Abba Gerasimus (5th century), Lycian Christian monk and abbot revered as a saint
- Abba Gindin (b. 1946), Finnish/Israeli ice hockey player
- Abba Habib, Nigerian politician
- Abbot "Abbie" Hoffman, whose Hebrew name was Abba
- Abba Hushi (1898-1969), Israeli politician
- Abba Kovner (1918-1987), Lithuanian Jewish/Israeli poet, writer, and partisan leader
- Abba Kyari (1938-2020), Nigerian military officer, governor, and business leader
- Abba P. Lerner (1903–1982), American economist
- Abba Musa Rimi (b. 1940), Nigerian politician, governor of Kaduna State
- Abba Hillel Silver (1893–1963), U.S. Rabbi and Zionist leader
- Abba Goold Woolson (1838-1921), American writer
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