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Rivet

Feminine
Rare

Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from a diminutive of Old French rive ‘(river) bank’, ‘shore’ (see Rives).
  • Northern French and English : metonymic occupational name for a maker of bolts (see Rivett).

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