Verderber Family History
Verderber Surname Meaning
German:: nickname from Middle High German verderber ‘destroyer’ an agent derivative of verderben ‘to destroy or kill’.
Habitational name for someone from a village named Verderb in the Kočevsko region in Lower Carniola, Slovenia, now abandoned.
This is a Gottscheerish (i.e. Gottschee German) surname.
(see Kocevar).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
