Rab Family History
Rab Name Meaning
German: variant of Raab (see Rabe ). Hungarian: status name from rab ‘slave prisoner’. Czech (mainly Ráb): nickname from Middle High German rab(e) ‘raven’ or an altered form of the German name Raab . Alternatively it may be from the same (archaic) word as the Hungarian name above. Muslim (Indian subcontinent): from the Arabic personal name Rabb ‘lord sustainer’. Ar-Rabb is an attribute of Allah (see the Koran ‘All praise belongs to Allah the lord of the universe.’) giving rise to the compound name ʿAbd al-Rabb ʿAbdul-Rabb ʿAbdur-Rabb ‘servant of the Lord’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022