Molti gli emigrati, specialmente nell'America del Nord. Many Gerbinos emigrated to North America, where they work especially as countrymen and farmers, with some shopkeepers and some professionals. Apart from Andrea, the most recurring names are Rosario, Vito, Gaspare and Vincenzo - later, we find Diego, Damillo and Nicoln. The Gerbino Coat Of Arms here by illustrated is officially documented in Crollalanza's Dizionario Storico-Blasonico. The surname Gerbino appears to be locational in origin.
Many surnames have more than one origin.
The name Gerbino is a Sicilian family name that comes from the Arab influence in the south of Italy. More precisely it comes from Djerba, the Tunisian Island. There is a region called Urbino, meaning nice city or similar and an entire clan lived there in north Italy, they were all Urbinos. There was a Duke of Urbino, a famous Italian city-state local warlord. Gulielmo II, King of Sicilie, according as the Sicilian Chronicles, had two children, the one a son, named Don Rogero, and the other a daughter, Madame Constance.