MacCabee Surname
Approximately 399 people bear this surname
MacCabee Surname Definition:
(Celtic-Latin-Greek-Syr.) Son of the Abbot [Irish and Gaelic Mac Aba—mac, son + aba (dh, genit. of ab, abbot] Cp. Mc Nab.
Read More About This SurnameMacCabee Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 265 | 1:1,367,770 | 94,877 |
| England | 60 | 1:928,634 | 47,428 |
| Canada | 52 | 1:708,569 | 56,910 |
| Israel | 6 | 1:1,426,272 | 75,466 |
| Nigeria | 4 | 1:44,285,690 | 437,567 |
| Ireland | 2 | 1:2,354,470 | 19,715 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 4 | 1:1,107,467 | 26,093 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 17 | 1:2,954,040 | 135,915 |
The alternate forms: MacCabée (1) are calculated separately.
MacCabee (26) may also be a first name.
MacCabee Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
(Celtic-Latin-Greek-Syr.) Son of the Abbot [Irish and Gaelic Mac Aba—mac, son + aba (dh, genit. of ab, abbot] Cp. Mc Nab.
User-submitted Reference
There are those who call it 'Maccabeo', a term used - in in collegiate jargon - by French medical students to indicate the corpses/cadavers (As well as the cataract - guardians of the rivers - the nineteenth century saying 'Macab' or 'the drowned'). In the Transalpine region, an ancient French saying 'Ma-cabre', was referred to misfortune. In Arabic 'maqbara' means tomb and 'maqabir' cemetery; in Syrian 'Maquabrey' is the name of the undertaker (or Gravedigger). A curious discovery quite recent: in 1419 a chaplain of the Holy Innocents Church in Paris was called Laurentis Macabre.
Also in France, with the last name of a family of Troyes, French artists of the fifteenth century, who made extensive use, were designated, in fact, similar macabre representations. A rather intricate road, but certainly suggestive, is undertaken by the French scholar Naskidashvili when, finding in the dialects of the Morvan, the Meuse and the Vendôme area the term 'Abre Macabre', it refers to the clouds that fray (v. unravel or become worn) and were popularly compared to the famous Dance.
Taken and translated from Mauro Neri's Bascenis de Averaria: pittori itineranti nel Trentino (1989), pg. 81.
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MacCabee Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name MacCabee Come From? nationality or country of origin
MacCabee is found in The United States more than any other country/territory. It may also be found as: MacCabée. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name MacCabee? popularity and diffusion
It is the 727,600th most frequently used last name world-wide, borne by around 1 in 18,264,526 people. This surname occurs mostly in The Americas, where 75 percent of MacCabee reside; 75 percent reside in North America and 62 percent reside in Anglo-North America. MacCabee is also the 2,084,397th most widely held given name globally, borne by 26 people.
It is most frequently occurring in The United States, where it is borne by 265 people, or 1 in 1,367,770. In The United States MacCabee is most numerous in: New York, where 23 percent reside, California, where 12 percent reside and Ohio, where 12 percent reside. Beside The United States this last name exists in 15 countries. It also occurs in England, where 15 percent reside and Canada, where 13 percent reside.
MacCabee Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of MacCabee has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the MacCabee surname rose 1,559 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in Ireland it contracted 50 percent between 1901 and 2014.
MacCabee Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the MacCabee surname is predominantly Anglican (100%) in Ireland.
In The United States those bearing the MacCabee last name are 20.58% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 73.81% being registered to vote for the political party.
The amount MacCabee earn in different countries varies somewhat. In United States they earn 12.55% more than the national average, earning $48,565 USD per year and in Canada they earn 7.05% more than the national average, earning $53,188 CAD per year.
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