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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. German and Swiss German: apparently an occupational name for a turnip grower, from an agent derivative of Middle High German rabe ‘turnip’.
  2. German and Swiss German: from a Germanic personal name, Radobert, a compound of rād, rāt ‘advice’, ‘counsel’ + berht ‘bright’, ‘famous’.
  3. German and Swiss German: variant of Reber.