answersLogoWhite

0

This surname Chavez is a Spanish form of Portuguese Chaves, so Chavez is from Spain. Here is the etymology of Chaves from ancestry.com.

Chaves -

  1. Portuguese: habitational name from a place in the province of Tras-os-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.
  2. Portuguese and Galician: habitational name from any of numerous places called Chaves, generally from the plural of chave'key', from Latin clavis.
  3. Variant of Irish and English Chivers. Compare Chavers.
User Avatar

Wiki User

14y ago

What else can I help you with?