Spanish, Catalan, and Asturian-Leonese: habitational name from any
of numerous places named Nava, from nava ‘treeless plateau’, a
word of pre-Roman origin, most probably from Basque naba ‘plain
next to mountains’. The name is also borne by Sephardic Jews.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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