Driver Family History
Driver Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): occupational name from Middle English drivere ‘one who drives (cattle)’ in Lancashire specifically a moorland vaccary officer who kept the cattle within their designated pastures. Elsewhere perhaps alternatively ‘a driver of a team of animals or of a cart or wagon’. Americanized form of Dutch Drijver an equivalent of
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022