Släkthistoria för Govey
Govey Vad efternamn betyder
probably from an unrecorded Middle English personal name *Goffy *Govy a pet form of Goff itself a pet form of Godfrey. Compare Goffin Govett.alternatively perhaps a reduced form of the Dorset name Goves from the Norman name (de) Goviz. This is apparently recorded as Gouyegh 1381 in Poll Tax (Ashton in Winterborne Dorset) but it might be scribal misreading.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
