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How Popular Is The Name Nieves
Family name origins & meanings
- Spanish : religious byname, from the title María de las Nieves ‘Mary of the Snows’, given particularly to children born on 5 August, on which date the Virgin allegedly once caused it to snow in Rome. It is possible that the surname derives in part from a nickname for someone with snow-white hair.
- Spanish : Castilianized form of the Galician and Asturian-Leonese habitational name Neves.