Frequency: (326)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Scottish: habitational name from a place named with Gaelic tairbeart ‘narrow isthmus’, ‘portage’, as for example, Tarbert on Loch Fyne in Argyll or Tarbat in Easter Ross.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
