From Lagur (לגור) = "to sojourn"; i.e a caravanserai; though Gesenius also suggests "water-pots".
Genesis 10:19 tells us that the Kena'ani border ran from "Tsidon (Sidon) towards Gerar all the way to Azah (Gaza)" where later the Yisra-Eli would run from "Dan to Be'er Sheva".
Genesis 20:1 states that Gerar was the original abode of the kings of the Pelishtim (Philistines). It was ruled by Avi-Melech in Av-Raham's time, as later in Yitschak's (Genesis 26), though Avi-Melech was probably his title, not his personal name - it means "My Father is Moloch"? Av-Raham lived as an alien in Gerar, between Kadesh and Shur.
Genesis 26:1 tells the parallel story of Yitschak and Rivkah, who moved to Gerar because of a famine, so precisely parallel, indeed, to the Av-Raham-Sarah version, that we have to assume they are mythological, part of liturgy, rather than historical.
Genesis 26:17 - the valley of Gerar (נחל גרר), where Yitschak settled, and spent most of the rest of his life doing little more than endless repairing his father's wells, the Vishnu role, alongside Av-Raham's Brahma , in the Yisra-Eli Trimurti.
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