Släkthistoria för Ovel
Ovel Vad efternamn betyder
in Sussex at least apparently from a place named Ofeld which may be lost or may survive as Navant Hill in Lurgashall (Sussex). The place-name probably derives from Old English of ‘steep’ + helde ‘slope’. Elsewhere in England a different explanation may well be required.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
