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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (East Anglia) : metonymic occupational name for a metalworker, from Middle English, Old French rivet ‘small nail or bolt’ (from Old French river ‘to fix or secure’, of unknown origin).
  • French : variant of Rivet 1.

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