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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : occupational name for a layer of paving, from Middle English, Old French pavier ‘paver’, an agent derivative of Old French paver ‘to pave’ (though the Old French verb may be a back-formation from pavement ‘laid floor’).

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