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Also of Amharic usage (and possibly Tigrinya) in the case of Canadian singer-songwriter who was originated in Ethiopia—professionally known as 'The Weeknd'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_WeekndThe Amharic script is አበል. This name is very popular in Ethiopia and Eritrea.
It's also very popular in several African countries like Nigeria, Angola and Mozambique.
https://forebears.io/forenames/abel
Also Norwegian: https://www.nordicnames.de/wiki/Abel_m
Also Armenian: https://www.behindthename.com/name/abel/top/armenia [noted -ed]
Also Judeo-French: https://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/jewish/levy/abel.html
Also Flemish and French (Belgian): http://www.names.be/jongensnamen.html?met=Abel&sort=beldesc
Also Dutch: https://www.meertens.knaw.nl/nvb/naam/is/Abel [noted -ed]
Also Afrikaans: https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel
Also Walloon: https://wa.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel
Qabil is an Arabic/Islamic version of Abel.
Also Niçard: http://www.sourgentin.org/cours-de-nissart/les-prenoms/
Also used in Poland.
Also Estonian: https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel_(eesnimi)
This is such a rare name.
I recently encountered an instance of this name on a woman. Very unexpected, to be sure.
Also Provençal (or more precisely, Niçard): https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/Abel#Occitan (Source: Lou Sourgentin, « Prénoms / Noum de batisme )
According to howmanyofme.com, there are two people in the U.S. named Abel Abel.
Also Catalan: http://www.idescat.cat/noms/?q=Abel&lang=en.
I know a girl called Abel, I didn't realize it was a masculine name.
In 2018, 3 is the most common age for an American (U.S.) Abel who is registered male with the Social Security Administration. It is the 1, 133rd most common male first name for living U.S. citizens.
The name Abel is also used in Georgia, although it is not very common there these days.In Georgian, Abel is written as: აბელ.A known bearer of this name was the Georgian prince and soldier Abel Makashvili (1860–1920). [noted -ed]
This is a Polish version, too.

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