The govan Surname
govan Name Meaning and History
- habitational name from Govan near Glasgow, first recorded c.1134 as Guven, possibly meaning ‘place of the smith’, although more recently a Cumbric word gir ‘hill’ has been suggested.
- from a reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac a’Ghobhainn ‘son of the smith’, from gobha ‘smith’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Threads: 44 - Messages: 158
| Thread | Author | Replies |
| Govan's in South Carolina | Eva Govan | 26 |
| GOVAN Rodney V 1933-1996 |
 t42RoseHill
| 0 |
| Eaton Pugh Govan | Frank Burke | 3 |
| F. G. Govan, Attorney and Mason, Rome, Georgia | Jim Taylor | 4 |
| GOVAN in New Zealand, from Govan, Scotland |
warren_power
| 8 |
| John GOVAN | John Forster Holt | 22 |
| Govan Family from Dunbarton,Scotland |
mistyloch
| 4 |
| David Mowatt, Govan |
saxoann
| 2 |
| Isabella GOVAN marr James HENDERSON in 1845 in Gorbals, Lanark, Scotland |
ancestralfamilytrees
| 2 |
| Robert Govan~Born in Winston Salem, NC 1906 | Jeremy Govan | 1 |
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