Riva Family History
Riva Name Meaning
Italian: topographic name for someone who lived by a wharf in a
port or on the bank of a river, riva (Latin ripa).Catalan and Spanish: variant of Riba, which has the same
origin and meaning as 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Riva Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Riva families
 9 - 16  4 - 8 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Riva families
|
8 - 13 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Riva census records
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Riva Family Origin
Riva Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Riva Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Riva census records
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Military Service by Riva
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