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daves Name Meaning and History

  1. Probably a variant spelling of Davis or Davies.
  2. Americanized spelling of German Tewes or Däves, from reduced forms of the personal name Matthäus (see Matthew).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of daves Families in the US in 1920
Number of daves families
 42-82
 15-41		 1-14
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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