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Early Origins of the Gabor family

The surname Gabor was first found in Poitou.

Early History of the Gabor family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Gabor research. Another 57 words (4 lines of text) covering the years 1305, 1378, 1650, 1809, 1832, 1853, 1855, 1862, 1867, 1874, 1885, 1901, 1923 and 1955 are included under the topic Early Gabor History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Gabor Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Gaboury, Gabet, Gabot, Gabin, Gaberet, Gabereay, Gaboreau, Gaboriau, Gaboriaud, Gaberié, Gabillaud, Gabillar, Gabillet, Gabillot, Gabillon, Gaborneau, Gabereau, Gabourd, Gaborit, Gabory and many more.

Early Notables of the Gabor family

Notable amongst the family at this time was

  • Louis de Gaborreau, a surgeon in 1650
  • the Gabory family was one of architects, one of which was Jean-Nicolas, who lived in the seventeenth century
  • Etienne-Emile Gaboriau was a journalist in Saujon around 1832
  • Marie-Claude-Henry Gaboriau was general controller of the Army around 1853
  • Armand-Prosper Gaborit was ordained priest in 1855
  • Auguste-Clement-Marie Gaboriau was a doctor in Nantes around 1862
  • Lucien-Adolphe-Jean Gaboriaud was also a doctor in Nantes, recorded in the following year
  • Felix Gaborit was a politician in Nazaire in 1867
  • Jean-Huges-Leon-Hyppolyte Gaborit was a painter in Lyon in 1874
  • Emile Gabory was an archivist and paleographer in 1901
  • Henry-Germain Gaborit was a historian and in 1923 he became one of the founders of the Archaeological Society of Saint-Jean-d'Angély
  • Josué Gaboriaud was a painter and drawer in Paris in 1955

Gabor Ranking

In the United States, the name Gabor is the 17,768th most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. 1

Migration of the Gabor family

Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: 220 individuals who left France between 1600 and 1900. Among them, Anne Gabory married in 1681 in Ilet, Quebec; Jeanne Gaboury married in 1692 in Levis.


Contemporary Notables of the name Gabor (post 1700) +

  • William A. Gabor (1922-2019), American professional NBA basketball player for the Syracuse Nationals (1948-1955)
  • Zsa Zsa Gabor (b. 1917), Hungarian-American actress
  • Magda Gabor (1915-1997), Hungarian born American entertainer and socialite
  • Eva Gabor (1919-1995), Hungarian-born American actress
  • Dennis Gabor CBE, FRS (1900-1979), Hungarian-born British physicist awarded the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics
  • B B Gabor (1948-1990), Hungary-born Canadian pop singer
  • Ernst Gabor Strause (1922-1983), German-American mathematician
  • Gabor J. Kalman (1929-2022), Hungarian-American physicist, academic, and author, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at Boston College

Flight TWA 800
  • Mr. Daniel Kirk Gabor (1969-1996), aged 27, from Pleasanton, California, USA, American track runner flying aboard flight TWA 800 from J.F.K. Airport, New York to Leonardo da Vinci Airport, Rome when the plane crashed after takeoff ; he died in the crash 2
Pan Am Flight 103 (Lockerbie)
  • Ibolya Robertine Gabor (1909-1988), Hungarian Passenger from Budapest, Hungary, who flew aboard the Pan Am Flight 103 from Frankfurt to Detroit, known as the Lockerbie bombing in 1988 and died 3


  1. "What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
  2. The Washington Post Passenger List TWA Flight 800. (Retrieved 2018, February 15th). Retrieved from https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/twa800/list01.htm
  3. Pan Am Flight 103's victims: A list of those killed 25 years ago | syracuse.com. (Retrieved 2014, April 9) . Retrieved from http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2013/12/pan_am_flight_103s_victims_a_list_of_those_killed_25_years_ago.html


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