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Origin Of The Surname Alves
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Meaning Of The Surname Alves
From The White Town
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Interesting
Facts About
Alves
Alves is a locational surname coming from any of the places so-called or similarly spelled across Britain. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. The place name itself comes from the Gaelic word ‘all’ which means white in colour. The place name could have been given to describe the town, for instance, the colour of stone used for the original buildings. |
Alves Statistics
Alves is the number 1650 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 6,336 share the surname Alves in the UK.
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