Culver Family History
Culver Name Meaning
English (Kent): from Middle English culver colver ‘dove’ (Old English culfre Late Latin columbula a diminutive of columba) which Reaney suggests was used as a term of endearment. It may therefore have been applied as nickname for a lovelorn youth or perhaps for someone who used the expression indiscriminately. Otherwise it may have been a metonymic occupational name for a keeper of doves or a nickname for someone bearing some fancied resemblance to a dove such as mildness of temper.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022