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The avey Surname

avey Name Meaning and History

  1. English (mainly East Anglia and southern counties): unexplained.
  2. Possibly a shortened form of Mac Avey, a variant of McEvoy and McVey.
  3. Possibly an altered form of French Hévé.
  4. Alternatively, perhaps, an Americanized form of German Ewig.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of avey Families in the US in 1920
Number of avey families
 15-28
 6-14		 1-5
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