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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (mainly East Anglia) : habitational name from Calver in Derbyshire, named in Old English with calf ‘calf’ + ofer ‘slope’, ‘ridge’.
  • English (mainly East Anglia) : variant of Calvert.

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