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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French (Métivier) : occupational name for a harvester, or rather a feudal tenant who owed a particular duty of service at the time of the harvest, from an agent derivative of Old French métive ‘harvest’ (Latin messis aestiva ‘summer harvest’).

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