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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from an agent derivative of Middle High German gebel, gibel ‘gable’; ‘head’, ‘skull’ (see Giebel).
  • German : from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with geba ‘gift’.

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