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coven Name Meaning and History

  1. from Old French covine ‘fraud’, ‘deceit’, hence a derogatory nickname for a trickster.
  2. habitational name from a place in Staffordshire named Coven ‘(place) at the huts or shelters (Old English cofa, dative plural cofum)’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of coven Families in the US in 1920
Number of coven families
 8-13
 3-7
 1-2
 0
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