Reeve Last Name: Meaning and Heraldic Roots

Arms linked to Reeves and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Family name meaning

Reeve belongs to the Reeves family of names, which has English roots. The name is usually explained as “Steward, reeve”.

Reeve and Reeves

Without the “s” of Reeves, Reeve is a simpler written form of the same name. The same family of names includes Reaves and Grieve.

Want more than a summary? See the Reeve family name pack.