Family name origins & meanings
- English : see Beaver 1.
- Italian : habitational name from any of numerous places called Belvedere, from bello ‘beautiful’ + vedere ‘to see’, ‘to look at’, for example Belvedere Marittimo in Cosenza and Belvedere di Spinello in Catanzaro. In some instances the surname may have arisen from a nickname with the same meaning.