Gelb Family History
Gelb Name Meaning
Jewish (Ashkenazic): from German gelb ‘yellow’. It can be either a nickname or a surname distributed to Jews at random by Austrian clerks. German: nickname for someone with fair hair from Middle High German gel German gelb ‘yellow’. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022