Last name: RIVET

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RIVET : This last name is indexed 399,260 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

RIVET : 1: 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.2: English: variant of Rivett.

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