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The revere Surname

revere Name Meaning and History

  1. French: variant of Rivière, Rivoire, or Rivier, topographic name for someone living on the banks of a river, French rivier ‘bank’, or habitational name from any of the many places in France named with this word.
  2. English: nickname from Middle English revere ‘reiver’, ‘robber’.
  3. English: topographic name for someone who lived on the brow of a hill, from a misdivision of the Middle English phrase atter evere ‘at the brow or edge’ (from Old English yfer, efer ‘edge’) or a habitational name from a place named with this phrase, as for example River in West Sussex or Rivar in Wiltshire.
  4. Jewish (from Italy): habitational name from a place in Mantua named Revere.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of revere Families in the US in 1920
Number of revere families
 13-24
 5-12		 1-4
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Rocco Rivela Revere AuntJenny03 0
REVERE Genealogy ABeasley4201 81
family ties Ovide McKendall Sr 0
Revere line cindyroberts57 0
Paul Revere and family M. Edib 10
I am related to Paul Revere Chessica Hauge 16
REVERE's from Pancras/Marylebone, LON & Coventry, WAR moonraker001 0
Thomas Leander Revere Sr d 1943 Mobile AL pamelaharrellwhiteside 0
REVERE, Jared and HILL, Sarah Elizabeth, Ontario and MI Ralph Bicknese 5
Elizabeth Revere Nancy Todd 5
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