Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from any of various places named Ovington, most notably those in Durham and Northumberland, where the surname is most common. The one in Durham is named in Old English as ‘estate (tūn) associated with (-ing-) a man called Wulfa’; the one in Northumberland as ‘hill (dūn) of the followers of (-inga-) a man called Ofa’.