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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : from a pet form of the Germanic personal name Ovo.
  • Swedish : apparently an ornamental name formed from the place-name element hov-, with several different meanings (including ‘pagan temple’ and ‘hill’) + the suffix -ing (see Arning).

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