Rivet Family History
Rivet Name Meaning
French: topographic name for someone who lived on the bank of a river or the shore of a lake from a diminutive of Old French rive ‘(river) bank shore’ (from Latin ripa); or a habitational name from (Le) Rivet the name of several places in various parts of France. Compare Rivest and Rivette . English: variant of Rivett .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022