Last name: OVER
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Last name frequency
OVER : This last name is indexed 44,241 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
OVER : 1: English: habitational name from any of several places called Over such as those in Cambridgeshire Cheshire and Gloucestershire or Littleover and Mickleover (both in Derbyshire) or a topographic name from residence at a bank or river bank from Old English ōfer ‘bank’ or from residence in the upper part of a settlement or at the top of a slope from Old English ofer ‘slope hill ridge’.2: North German and Dutch: topographic name denoting someone who lived above or beyond a settlement or feature.3: Swedish (Över): ornamental name of unexplained etymology.
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