Ovenden

English

Etymology

From the dative form of the Old English personal name Ofa + denu (“valley”).

Proper noun

Ovenden (countable and uncountable, plural Ovendens)

1. A suburban village in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0727).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Ovenden is the 4307^th most common surname in England, belonging to 1725 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Ovenden”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
• Forebears