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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian, Catalan, Spanish, and Portuguese : from cava ‘cave’, ‘cellar’ (from Latin cavea), hence a metonymic occupational name for someone employed in the wine cellars of a great house, a topographic name for someone who lived in or near a cave, or a habitational name from any of numerous places named with this word.

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