geb.
German, adjective
geb. is spelled G-E-B (3 letters) and appears 35 times per million words in written German, the 2,396th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Geb. is a German adjective meaning “abbreviation of geborene (geborener): née, né (family name at birth)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, geb is a different word: “first-person singular present of geben”.
What does geb. mean in English?
adjective
- 1
abbreviation of geborene (geborener): née, né (family name at birth)
Paula Müller geb. Schmidt
- 2
abbreviation of geboren: born, b.
Paula Müller (geb. 1892)
- 3
abbreviation of gebunden: bound, married
verb
- 1
colloquialfirst-person singular present of geben
- 2
colloquialproscribedsingular imperative of geben
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
abbreviation: 1. geborener, geborene gefolgt vom Geburtsnamen 2. geboren mit Angabe des Geburtsdatums und/oder Orts 3. gebürtig 4. gebaut
abbreviation: 1. Gebäude 2. Gebet 3. Gebiet 4. Gebinde
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of geb.
- geb' alternative
- gb. alternative
- gbd. alternative
- gebd. alternative
- [2] * symbol
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to geb.
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is geb. in German?
geb. appears 35 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).