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Updated January 22, 2024

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How Popular Is The Name Neve

Family name origins & meanings

  • English, Dutch, Danish, and Swedish : from Middle English, Old Norse, Middle Dutch neve ‘nephew’, presumably denoting the nephew of some great personage.
  • French (Nève) : Lyonnais habitational name from the Rhône place name En Nève, which derives from misdivision of En ève ‘in water’ (modern standard French en eau).
  • Italian : from the personal name Neve, which may be from neve ‘snow’ (Latin nix, genitive nivis), possibly denoting a white-haired or very pale-complexioned person, or, according to Caracausi, may be a variant of the personal name Neves, from the Marian epithet Madonna della Neve or Maria Santissima ad nives ‘Mary of the Snows’.
  • Portuguese and Galician : from neve ‘snow’. Compare 3.
  • A family by the name Neve traces its descent from Robert le Neve, living in Tivetshall, Norfolk, in the 14th century.

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