Last name origins & meanings:
- Czech: from a shortened form of any of various Old Czech
traditional personal names formed with habat ‘to take’, or from
a pet form of Havel.
- Polish: perhaps a variant of
Chaba, from a dialect word meaning ‘rib’ or ‘dry branch’.
- Jewish (from Poland): metonymic occupational name from Polish
chaba, a kind of coarse white woolen cloth.
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