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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Muslim (Egyptian Arabic): variant of Jaber.
  2. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): variant of Haber.
  3. German: from a short form of the personal name Gabriel.
  4. Slovenian: from a short form of the personal name Gabrijel (see Gabriel).
  5. Slovenian: topographic name from gaber ‘hornbeam’, denoting someone who lived by a place where hornbeams grew. It may also be a shortened American form of the surnames Gaberšek or Gaberšček, which have the same origin.