Absolom as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Absolom

What is the meaning of the name Absolom ?

The baby name Absolom is a Male name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced AB-suh-ləm (IPA: /ˈæb.sə.ləm/; alt. /ˈæb.sə.lɒm/).

Absolom is Hebrew in Origin.

Absolom is an English variant of Absalom, from Hebrew Avshalom (אבשלום), built from av “father” + shalom “peace,” yielding “father of peace” or “my father is peace.” In the Bible, Absalom, son of King David, is admired for beauty and charisma yet remembered for rebellion and a tragic death, a story that tempered the name’s appeal in Jewish and Christian communities.

In medieval and early modern England the spellings Absolon and Absolom appear in parish records; Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale includes an Absolon, and seventeenth-century Puritan taste for Old Testament names sustained Absalom/Absolom in Britain and colonial America. Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel and Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! kept the name visible in literature. Today Absalom is the standard English form, while Absolom, Absolon, Absolam, and rare Absolem persist as historical or surname spellings; modern Hebrew favors Avshalom, with the biblical variant Abishalom/Avishalom also attested.