Beaver Family History
- Beaver Name Meaning
- English (of Norman origin): habitational name from any of several places in France called Beauvoir, for example in Manche, Somme, and Seine-Maritime, or from Belvoir in Leicestershire. All of these are named with Old French beu, bel ‘fair’, ‘lovely’ + veïr, voir ‘to see’, i.e. a place with a fine view. English: nickname from Middle English bevere, Old English beofor ‘beaver’, possibly referring to a hard worker, or from some other fancied resemblance to the animal. The existence of patronymic forms such as Beaverson suggest that this may also have been a personal name. Probably a translation of cognates of 2 in other languages, in particular Dutch Bever and German Bieber. Possibly a variant of Welsh Bevan.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 906,334 Historical Documents with Beaver on Ancestry
- 219,949 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 127,847 Census and Voter Lists
- 25,477 Military Records
- 7,767 Immigration Records
- 525,294 Member Trees
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Number of Beaver families
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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127 - 252 43 - 126 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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- Confederate
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- Union
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