Revere Family History

Altered form of French Rivoire. English: nickname from Middle English revere ‘reiver robber’. English: either a topographic name for someone who lived on the brow of a hill from a misdivision of the Middle English phrase atter evere ‘at the brow or edge’ (from Old English yfer efer ‘edge’).

Alternatively, it may be a habitational name for someone from River in Tillington (West Sussex) or Rivar in Shalbourne (Wiltshire). English (of Norman origin): variant of Rivers.

Jewish (from Italy): habitational name from a place in Mantua named Revere.