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Last name origins & meanings:

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