WEAVER: Origin of last name and genealogy

All you have to know about the last name WEAVER

Last name frequency

WEAVER : This last name is indexed 275,928 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

WEAVER : 1: English: occupational name from an agent derivative of Middle English weven ‘to weave’ (Old English wefan).2: English: habitational name from a place on the Weaver river in Cheshire now called Weaver Hall but recorded simply as Weuere in the 13th and 14th centuries. The river name is from Old English wēfer(e) ‘winding stream’.3: Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘weaver’ for example German Weber Polish and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) Tkacz or Tkach Hungarian Takács (see Takacs) and Slovenian Tkalec Tekavec or Veber.

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Variants of last name

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