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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Catalan and southern French (Estève) : from the personal name Esteve, Catalan and Occitan vernacular form of Latin Stephanus (see Steven).
  • In some cases, possibly Portuguese, an old variant of Estévão, cognate with 1.

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