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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Hungarian : from a pet form of the personal name Gábor or Gábriel (see Gabriel).
  • Czech and Slovak (Gába) : from a pet form of the personal name Gabriel.
  • Polish : nickname for a bully, from gabać ‘to provoke or molest’.
  • Indian (Panjab) : Hindu (Arora, Khatri) and Sikh name, meaning ‘calf’ in Panjabi (from Sanskrit garbha ‘embryo’).

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