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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Middle English : Bailiff

Boy name variations

Reeve

Reeve

- 13% this year
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Reave

Reave

0 % this year
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How Popular Is The Name Reeves

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : patronymic from Reeve.
  • English : topographic name for someone who lived on the margin of a wood, from a misdivision of the Middle English phrase atter eves ‘at the edge’ (Old English æt þære efese).

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