Overend Family History
Overend Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): topographic name for someone who lived at the ‘upper end’ of a settlement from Middle English overe uvere ‘upper’ + end ‘end’. Possibly a habitational name relating to a specific but unlocated minor place in the western Dales as the surname is particularly associated with this area in the medieval period.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022