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.)

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 Thulle, ibedul of Koror
 * 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