Family name origins & meanings
- English : occupational name for a reaper or harvester, or for someone who collected wheatsheaves owed in rent, from an agent derivative of Middle English garbe ‘wheatsheaf’ (see Garbe).
- North German : from a personal name composed of geri, gari ‘spear’ + berht ‘bright’, ‘famous’.
- North German form of Gerber.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Gerber, from Yiddish garber.