Last name: CAVE
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CAVE : This last name is indexed 168,399 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
CAVE : 1: English: habitational name from a place in East Yorkshire called Cave apparently from a river name derived from Old English cāf ‘swift’.2: English (of Norman origin): nickname from Norman and Picard Old French cauf (from Latin calvus) ‘bald’.3: French: topographic name for someone who lived in or near a cave from Old French cave ‘cave’ ‘cellar’ (from Latin cavea a derivative of cavus ‘hollow’).
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