Gombar Family History
Gombar Name Meaning
Slovak (Gombár); Croatian and Slovenian: occupational name for a button maker from a derivative of Slovak archaic gomba ‘big button’ Croatian and Slovenian dialect gomb ‘button’. See also 2 below. Hungarian (Gombár): of Slovak origin (see 1 above) but explained as a Slavic agent derivative of Hungarian gomba ‘mushroom’ itself a loanword from Old Slavic goba.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022