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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish (Chavarín, common in Mexico) : unexplained; perhaps a derivative from chavar ‘to bother’ (Puerto Rico). The surname is not documented in Spain.
  • French : possibly an eastern derivative of Old French chaver ‘to dig’.

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