Ovèr

surname · Latin script

Ovèr is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: 50 brand new first names listed, including Aeronwen, Ardal, Calista, Gaia, Macy, Nirvana, and Xena Cover illustration: Telegraph Colour Library/Mel Yates.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Record sources
8 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

50 brand new first names listed, including Aeronwen, Ardal, Calista, Gaia, Macy, Nirvana, and Xena Cover illustration: Telegraph Colour Library/Mel Yates.

Cited for this meaning 6

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • A dictionary of surnames
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
  • A Frequency Dictionary of Dutch

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Ovèr counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Ovèr is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—1.1K—8
GB United Kingdom—873—3
NL Netherlands—192——
CR Costa Rica—43——
NO Norway—32——

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

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Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Ovèr is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname66 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, United States

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Over, Oever, Uwer, Uver, Över

  • Spanish surname38 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Chile, Mexico, Türkiye

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Over, O'Ver, Ovër, Över, Ôvêr

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Ovèr under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ovèr mean, and where does it come from?
50 brand new first names listed, including Aeronwen, Ardal, Calista, Gaia, Macy, Nirvana, and Xena Cover illustration: Telegraph Colour Library/Mel Yates. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and A dictionary of surnames and 4 other sources.
In which country does Ovèr have the most bearers?
Ovèr is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ovèr”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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