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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : occupational name for a tanner, from the dialect word garb, Middle High German garwe. See also Gerber.
  • German : from a short form of a personal name formed with Old High German gēr ‘spear’, ‘lance’. Compare Gerhardt.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : descriptive nickname from Polish garb ‘hump’.

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