German: topographic name for someone who lived close to a stand of
lakeside grasses, such as marram, from Middle High German se
‘lake’ + haver ‘oats’, or a metonymic occupational name for
someone who collected them.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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