Family name origins & meanings
- Jewish (Sephardic and eastern Ashkenazic) : status name from Hebrew gabay ‘warden’, denoting a trustee or warden of a Jewish public institution, especially a synagogue, or a manager of the affairs of a Hasidic rabbi.
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