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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from a place called Gerbitz, in Anhalt (near Nienburg an der Saale).
  • Germanized form of Slovenian Gerbec, Grbec or Gerbic, nicknames for a hunchback, from grba ‘hunch’.

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