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Updated June 9, 2019

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.

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