English (of Norman origin) and northern French: nickname for a
bald man, from Anglo-Norman French cauf ‘bald’. Compare
Chaffee. adm; pwh.English: habitational name from a place in East Yorkshire
called Cave, apparently from a river name derived from Old English
caf ‘swift’.French: metonymic occupational name for
someone employed in or in charge of the wine cellars of a great house,
from Old French cave ‘cave’, ‘cellar’ (Latin cavea, a
derivative of cavus ‘hollow’).French, possibly also
English: topographic name for someone who lived in or near a cave,
from the same word as in 3 in an older sense.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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