Naves Family History
- Naves Name Meaning
- Portuguese: habitational name from a place named Naves, examples of which are found in Guarda and Castelo Branco. Asturian-Leonese and Galician: habitational name from any of the towns called Naves in Asturies and Galicia. French: habitational name from a place named Naves, notably in Allier and Corrèze, from the pre-Celtic word nava ‘plain’. Compare Nava.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 17,331 Historical Documents with Naves on Ancestry
- 8,656 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,793 Census and Voter Lists
- 474 Military Records
- 679 Immigration Records
- 4,729 Member Trees
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Number of Naves families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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