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From which country does the surname "Kaveh" originate?


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This unusual and interesting name is of either English or Norman
(French) origin. The English source is locational, where the
surname derives from the place called "Cave" in East Yorkshire,
recorded as "Cava" and in the Domesday Book of 1086. The placename
derives from a river name, from the Old English pre 7th Century
word "afe", quick, prompt, nimble. The second possible derivation
is from the Norman "nickname" surname "Chauf" or "Cauf", derived
from the Old French "chauf", bald, from the Latin "calvus", and
used of a bald man.

The variations of the modern surname from this source include
"Chave", "Cave", and "Kave", and the surname is first recorded as
Roger le Cauf, in The Curia Rolls of Cornwall, 1214. One Richard
Cave was an early emigrant the New World, leaving London on the
"Bonaventure" in January 1634 bound for Virginia. The first
recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of
Nigel de Cava, which was dated
1185, in the "Records of the Templars in Yorkshire", during the
reign of
King Henry 11, known as "The Builder of Churches", 1154 - 1189