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The pavey Surname

pavey Name Meaning and History

  1. from the medieval female personal name Pavia, which is of uncertain origin. Reaney and Wilson suggest it may be from Old French pavie ‘peach’ or Pavie ‘woman from Pavia’ (see 2).
  2. habitational name from Pavia in Lombardy, Italy.
  3. variant of Paver.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of pavey Families in the US in 1920
Number of pavey families
 25-47
 9-24
 1-8
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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