Staves
See also: staves
English
Etymology 1
Variant of Staff, with excrescent -s.
Proper noun
Staves (countable and uncountable, plural Staveses)
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Staves is the 41501st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 524 individuals. Staves is most common among White (71.37%) and Black/African American (21.95%) individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Staves”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
Etymology 2
Proper noun
Staves
- plural of Stave