Släkthistoria för Rives
Rives Vad efternamn betyder
English: variant of Rivis itself a variant of Revis. French (southern): topographic name for someone who lived on the bank of a river or the shore of a lake from the plural of Old French rive ‘(river) bank shore’ (from Latin ripa); or a habitational name from any of several places called Les Rives e.g. in Hérault. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name Rive a back-formation from Rivke (see Rifkin) + the Yiddish possessive suffix -s.
Källa: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
