Ivers Family History
Ivers Name Meaning
Irish: from Ó hÍomhair ‘descendant of Íomhar’ a Gaelic form of the Old Norse personal name Ívarr (see Iverson ) with excrescent English -s. It is occasionally Anglicized as Howard . Also a shortened form of Mac Íomhair ‘son of Íomhar’ with excrescent English -s. See McIver . English: variant of Iver with post-medieval excrescent -s a habitational name from Iver (Buckinghamshire) named from Old English ȳfre ‘edge or brow of a hill tip of a promontory’ or from a minor place called with the same word. North German: patronymic from the personal name Ivar (see Iversen ).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022