Last name origins & meanings:
- German and Swiss German (also Gäbler), Jewish
(Ashkenazic): occupational name for a maker of forks, from an agent
derivative of Middle High German gabel(e), German Gabel
‘fork’.
- habitational name for someone from a place called
Gabel in German, Jablone in Czech (see Gabel
3).
- English: occupational name for a tax collector or usurer, Old
French gabelier, gableor, a derivative of gable
‘tax’, ‘revenue’, of Germanic origin.
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