Jervis Last Name: Meaning and Heraldic Roots

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

The meaning behind Jervis

In parish registers, Jervis often stands in for Jarvis. Taken at its root, Jervis points to “From Gervase”.

Spelled with “e” instead of “a”, Jervis shows how the same name was heard and written differently. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. Other spellings include Gervis. According to the 2010 US Census, the Jervis surname had 1,572 bearers. Similar-sounding surnames on Herald Lab: Gervais.

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