Last 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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