The riviere Surname
riviere Name Meaning and History
French (Rivière): topographic name for someone who lived
by the bank of a river or shore of a lake, from Old French
rivière ‘river’, ‘shore’, or a habitational name from any of
various places named (Le) Rivière, for example in Indre-et-Loire
and Pas-de-Calais.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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