Cava Family History
- Cava Name Meaning
- Italian, Catalan, Spanish, and Portuguese: from cava ‘cave’, ‘cellar’ (from Latin cavea), hence a metonymic occupational name for someone employed in the wine cellars of a great house, a topographic name for someone who lived in or near a cave, or a habitational name from any of numerous places named with this word.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 23,644 Historical Documents with Cava on Ancestry
- 13,150 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 3,361 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,324 Military Records
- 1,855 Immigration Records
- 2,954 Member Trees
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Number of Cava families
 4 - 6  2 - 3 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Cava census records
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Cava census records
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