Last name: RIVES

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RIVES : This last name is indexed 139,079 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

RIVES : 1: English: variant of Rivis itself a variant of Revis.2: French (southern): topographic name for someone who lived on the bank of a river or the shore of a lake from the plural of Old French rive ‘(river) bank shore’ (from Latin ripa); or a habitational name from any of several places called Les Rives e.g. in Hérault.3: Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name Rive a back-formation from Rivke (see Rifkin) + the Yiddish possessive suffix -s.

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