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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : from a dialect variant of haver ‘oats’, either an occupational name for someone who grew or sold oats, or a habitational name (van Haver), from any of several minor places named with this word.
  • English : possibly a variant of Over, with the addition of an inorganic H-.

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