What is the origin of the surname 'OVEREND'?

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What is the origin of the surname 'OVEREND'?

Answer 1

Overend is also a place name, and it's thought this is where the surname came from. ie, it would mean that ancestors were originally from Overend.

How Overends were distributed in 1881:

http://www.nationaltrustnames.org.uk/Map...

How Overends were distributed in 1998:

http://www.nationaltrustnames.org.uk/Map...

Answer 2

This is the entry in the Oxford Names Companion

Overend: English (Yorks.): topographic name for someone who lived at the "upper end" of a settlement, from ME overe,uvere upper (OE ufera) + end end (OE ende)

ME = middle english

OE= old english

Hope it helps

Answer 3

This is what www.ancestry.com has to say about the name,

OVEREND Name Meaning and History

English (Yorkshire): topographic name for someone who lived at the ‘upper end’ of a settlement, from Middle English overe, uvere ‘upper’ + end ‘end’.

hope this helps.