Släkthistoria för Covey
Covey Vad efternamn betyder
Irish: shortened form of MacCovey an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cobhthaigh (see Coffey). English: unexplained. Covey is used of ‘pantry’ in the early modern period and covey ‘little chap’ (a diminutive of cove Middle English cof ‘bold eager courageous’; see Cove) in the early nineteenth century but there is no evidence to confirm either as the source for the surname.
Källa: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
