Govan Family History
Govan Name Meaning
Scottish (Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire): habitational name from Govan near Glasgow first recorded c. 1134 as Guven possibly meaning ‘place of the smith’ although more recently a Cumbric word gir ‘hill’ has been suggested. Irish and Scottish: from Ó Gobhann Gowan .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022