Overland Family History
Overland Name Meaning
Norwegian (mainly Øverland): habitational name from any of some twenty farmsteads mainly in Telemark and on the west coast named Øverland Overland from øver over ‘upper’ + land ‘(piece of) land farmstead'. English (Norfolk and Cambridgeshire): apparently a habitational name from Overland Farm in Ash next Sandwich (Kent) although the name is now strongly associated with northern East Anglia. The placename derives from Old English ōfer ‘bank’ + land ‘land’. English: possibly a variant of Overman .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022