The gens Gavia, or occasionally Gabia, was a Roman family of plebeian descent.
It first appears in history during the first century BC, but none of its members obtained any of the curule magistracies until imperial times.
The Gavi Arch at Verona was built in honor of one of the Gavii.
In historical times, this praenomen was used by the Oscan-speaking peoples of central and southern Italy, suggesting that the Gavii were originally of Sabine or Samnite origin;[2] one of the most famous persons with this praenomen was Gavius Pontius, a Samnite general during the Second Samnite War.
[3] As it is impossible to distinguish between different families of Gavii with absolute certainty, all persons bearing this nomen are collected here.