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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. 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.
  2. Polish: perhaps a variant of Chaba, from a dialect word meaning ‘rib’ or ‘dry branch’.
  3. Jewish (from Poland): metonymic occupational name from Polish chaba, a kind of coarse white woolen cloth.