Submitted NameRevisions Save Gender Masculine Usage English Pronounced Pron. AY-bl [key] Edit Status Status [show contributorshide contributors] Added 2/23/2011 by Ellen McLullick Edited 4/1/2021 by LMS Meaning & History Either a variant of Abel, or from the English word able, "having the power, skill, means, or opportunity to do something", ultimately from Latin habere "to hold".