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gabler Name Meaning and History

  1. 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’.
  2. habitational name for someone from a place called Gabel in German, Jablone in Czech (see Gabel 3).
  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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Distribution of gabler Families in the US in 1920
Number of gabler families
 38-73
 13-37
 1-12
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