Last name: NIVEN
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NIVEN : This last name is indexed 33,417 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
NIVEN : Scottish and Irish: from Scottish Gaelic Mac Naoimhín a patronymic from a personal name based on a diminutive of naomh ‘holy saint’. See McNiven and Nevin 2.
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