McKivers is used as a family name or surname in Ireland, Scotland. It is 8 characters long in length.
The surname McKivers is modification of Eure. See Ure - 1. A Yorkshire river. 2. Eur occurs as a personal name in Domesday; and an early Scandinavian gave his name to Ureby, or Ewerby, in Lincolnshire. 3. The baronial family of Eure took their name, in the XIII century, from the lordship of Eure or Evre, in Buckinghamshire.
A gentleman of this name having deserted a lady to whom he had been affianced, Douglas Jerrold remarked, that he could not have thought that Ure would have proved a base un.
The McKivers is variant form of MacIver. The son of Ivar or Iver meaning "archer".
Lastname is the variant of Evors. Probably the same as Mac Ivor, though Ferguson derives them from the Anglo-Saxon efor or efyr, a boar.
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