Origin of the name Drabkin

The last name Drabkin (Drabkind, Drapkin, Drapkind) came from the Yiddish word drabke ("drabki" in Belorussian-Jewish) that means a careless, untidy woman. From the beginning of the XIX century this name occurs in such towns of the Russian empire as Vitebsk, Samara, Orsha, Smolovichi, Bobruisk, Ponevezh, Gomel, Mogilev, Nevel and many others...

In the beginning of the XX century a large number of the clan members, searching for better life, left the Russian empire and moved to the USA. During the World War II, some of the family members found themselves in evacuation in Uzbekistan.

It should be noted that one of the most famous and respected members of the clan is a rabbi and a social figure named Abraham son of Not Drabkin who was born in 1844 in Mogilev on Dnepr and who worked as a Saint-Petersbourg rabbi during the long term of thirty years.