Family name origins & meanings
- Hungarian : from a pet form of the personal name Gábor or Gábriel (see Gabriel).
- Czech and Slovak (Gába) : from a pet form of the personal name Gabriel.
- Polish : nickname for a bully, from gabać ‘to provoke or molest’.
- Indian (Panjab) : Hindu (Arora, Khatri) and Sikh name, meaning ‘calf’ in Panjabi (from Sanskrit garbha ‘embryo’).