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Submitted Name
Type Surname (from location & from occupation)
Other Forms FormsRivett
Meaning & History
French: from a diminutive of Old French
rive ‘(river) bank’, ‘shore’ (see
RIVES).
Northern French and English: metonymic occupational name for a maker of bolts (see
RIVETT).