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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : Probably a metonymic occupational name for a cabbage farmer or a nickname for a poor person, from Middle High German kabez (from Latin caput ‘head’, ‘head of [white] cabbage’).
  • German : from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with geba ‘gift’as the first element, as in Gebhardt.

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