Portuguese: habitational name from a place named Naves,
examples of which are found in Guarda and Castelo Branco.Asturian-Leonese and Galician: habitational name from any of the
towns called Naves in Asturies and Galicia.French:
habitational name from a place named Naves, notably in Allier and
Corrèze, from the pre-Celtic word nava ‘plain’. Compare
Nava.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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