Oven Family History
Oven Name Meaning
Slovenian: from oven ‘ram’ probably used as a metonymic occupational name for a shepherd or as a nickname for someone thought to resemble the animal in some way. English: topographic name or metonymic occupational name from Middle English atte(n) ovene ‘at the oven (or furnace)’. The ‘oven’ in question was probably a furnace for making charcoal or for smelting iron.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022