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First name origin & meaning:

Middle English: Bailiff

First name variations: Reave, Reeve

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. English: patronymic from Reeve.
  2. English: topographic name for someone who lived on the margin of a wood, from a misdivision of the Middle English phrase atter eves ‘at the edge’ (Old English æt þære efese).

This name appears in the following lists: Rock Kings and Queens