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Rivet Name Meaning
French: from a diminutive of Old French rive ‘(river)
bank’, ‘shore’ (see Rives).Northern French and English:
metonymic occupational name for a maker of bolts (see Rivett).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Rivet Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Rivet families
 31 - 60  11 - 30 |
 1 - 10  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Rivet families
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6 - 10 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Rivet Family Origin
Rivet Immigration Information
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Rivet Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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