Rives Family History
Rives Name Meaning
Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish female personal
name Rive a back-formation from Rivke (see
Rifkin).French: topographic name for someone who lived on
the bank of a river or the shore of a lake, Old French rive
(Latin ripa).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Rives
Name Distribution of Rives Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Rives families
 13 - 23  5 - 12 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Rives Family Origin
Rives Emigration Information (US)
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Rives Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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