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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Catalan and Galician : topographic name from Catalan and Galician cova ‘cave’, or a habitational name from a place named with this word, in the provinces of Lugo, Ourense, Pontevedra, Catalonia and Valencia. Compare Cueva.

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