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cave Name Meaning and History

  1. English (of Norman origin) and northern French: nickname for a bald man, from Anglo-Norman French cauf ‘bald’. Compare Chaffee.
  2. English: habitational name from a place in East Yorkshire called Cave, apparently from a river name derived from Old English caf ‘swift’.
  3. French: metonymic occupational name for someone employed in or in charge of the wine cellars of a great house, from Old French cave ‘cave’, ‘cellar’ (Latin cavea, a derivative of cavus ‘hollow’).
  4. French, possibly also English: topographic name for someone who lived in or near a cave, from the same word as in 3 in an older sense.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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cave Family Facts

Distribution of cave Families in the US in 1920
Number of cave families
 43-83
 15-42		 1-14
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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