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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English and French : from Middle English, Old French garbe ‘wheatsheaf’, applied as a metonymic occupational name for a reaper or harvester, or for someone who collected wheatsheaves owed in rent.
  • German : variant of Garb.

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