Coven Family History
Coven Name Meaning
English:: (of Norman origin): from Old French covine ‘fraud deceit’ hence an unflattering nickname for a trickster. habitational name from a place in Staffordshire named Coven of uncertain origin but perhaps denoting ‘(place) at the huts’ (Old English æt thæm cofum ‘at the huts’).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022