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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : habitational name from a place named with Gaelic tairbeart ‘narrow isthmus’, ‘portage’, as for example, Tarbert on Loch Fyne in Argyll or Tarbat in Easter Ross.

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