Family name origins & meanings
- Italian : habitational name from any of the Italian places called (La) Cava, from cava ‘hole, cellar’ with the definite article la, or a topographic name for someone who lived by, worked in, or owned a quarry, Italian cava, or perhaps a habitational name from a place named with this word.
- Spanish, habitational name from either of the two places called La Cava in Attargona and Alicante provinces.