Släkthistoria för Dorival
Dorival Vad efternamn betyder
French and West Indian (mainly Haiti): habitational name with fused preposition d(e) ‘from’ denoting someone from any of several places in France called Orival (from Latin aurea vallis ‘golden valley’) in Charente Somme and Seine-Maritime. This surname was brought to the US mostly from Haiti where it is most common and where it may actually be an ornamental name (see Dorval).
Källa: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
