as a Last Name
- 6,294
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Chaves
Meaning & Origins
Portuguese: habitational name from a place in the province of Trasos-Montes named Chaves, from Latin (aquis) Flaviis, ‘(at the) waters of Flavius’. The place was the site of sulfurous springs with supposedly health-giving properties, around which a settlement was founded in the 1st century AD by the Emperor Vespasian.
| 5,550th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 6,294
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Puerto Rico
- has the most people named Chaves per capita
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