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nave Name Meaning and History

  1. English: occupational name for a servant, from Middle English knave ‘boy’, ‘youth’, ‘servant’.
  2. English: possibly a metonymic occupational name for a maker of wheel-hubs, Middle English nave (from Old English nafa, nafu).
  3. German (also Näve): variant of Neff (see Neve).
  4. Dutch (de Nave): variant of Naef 1.
  5. In some cases possibly Portuguese: topographic name from nave ‘plain’ (a variant of nava), or a habitational name from a place named with this word. Compare Nava.

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

Distribution of nave Families in the US in 1920
Number of nave families
 39-75
 14-38		 1-13
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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