Släkthistoria för Veevers
Veevers Vad efternamn betyder
of uncertain origin. Redmonds questions the derivation from vivers ‘victuals’ proposed by Weekley and others since the earliest OED references to this sense date from the 16th century and thus postdate the family name; he believes that the distribution of the name points to a source in Cumb or north Lancs as yet unidentified.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
