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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : variant of Dever.
  • Perhaps a respelling of German Düwer, Düver, from Middle Low German dūver ‘male pigeon’, hence a nickname for someone thought to resemble the bird or a metonymic occupational name for a dove keeper.

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