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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Variant of French Lefevre, altered by folk etymology as if it were from fave ‘bean’ (see Lafave).
  • Italian (Sicily; Le Fave) : from le fave, plural of fava ‘broad bean’ (see Fava).

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