Bovington Family History
Bovington Name Meaning
English:: habitational name from Bovington Hall in Bocking (Essex) Bovington (Dorset) or Boynton (Yorkshire) which are named with the Old English personal name Bōfa in the genitive form with -n or the connective -ing- + tūn ‘farm village’. variant of Bovingdon a cognate of 1 above. Compare Buffington .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022