Nave Family History
Nave Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a servant, from Middle English
knave ‘boy’, ‘youth’, ‘servant’.English: possibly a
metonymic occupational name for a maker of wheel-hubs, Middle English
nave (from Old English nafa, nafu).German (also Näve): variant of Neff (see
Neve).Dutch (de Nave): variant of Naef
1.In some cases possibly Portuguese: topographic name from
nave ‘plain’ (a variant of nava), or a habitational name
from a place named with this word. Compare Nava.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Nave
Name Distribution of Nave Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Nave families
 6 - 9  3 - 5 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Nave Family Origin
Nave Emigration Information (US)
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Nave Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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