as a Last Name
- 19,226
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Culver
Meaning & Origins
English: from Old English culfre ‘dove’ (Late Latin columbula, a diminutive of columba), which Reaney suggests was used as a term of endearment. It may therefore have been applied as nickname for a lovelorn youth or perhaps for someone who used the expression indiscriminately. Otherwise, it may have been a metonymic occupational name for a keeper of doves or a nickname for someone bearing some fancied resemblance to a dove, such as mildness of temper.
| 1,892nd in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 19,226
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Alabama
- has the most people named Culver per capita
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