Chaves Family History
Chaves Name Meaning
Portuguese: habitational name from a place in the province of Tras-os-Montes named Chaves from Latin (aquis) Flaviis ‘(at the) waters of Flavius’. The place was the site of sulfurous springs with supposedly health-giving properties around which a settlement was founded in the 1st century
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022