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Staves

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (East Midlands and South Yorkshire) : possibly a metonymic occupational name for a stave maker, from the plural of Middle English staf ‘rod’, ‘staff’.

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