Hovey Family History
Hovey Name Meaning
English and Welsh: from the personal name Hwfa of uncertain origin. The surname is more frequently found in the explicit patronymic form ap Hwfa ‘son of Hwfa’ (see Povey ) and forms with and without ap were still interchangeable in the 16th and 17th centuries. English: perhaps from an unrecorded Old English personal name Hofig a pet form of Old English Hofa (of uncertain origin but apparently from hof ‘temple’) + a hypocoristic suffix -ig. However the absence of Middle English evidence for either the personal name or the surname leaves this explanation in doubt. Americanized form of Dutch Hove .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022