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riva Name Meaning and History

  1. Italian: topographic name for someone who lived by a wharf in a port or on the bank of a river, riva (Latin ripa).
  2. Catalan and Spanish: variant of Riba, which has the same origin and meaning as 1.

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Distribution of riva Families in the US in 1920
Number of riva families
 18-34
 7-17
 1-6
 0
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