Where Does the Bover Surname Come From?

There is no single Bover family crest for every bearer. Herald Lab researches the arms historically associated with the name and explains whose they were.

Family name meaning

Bover and Bower are two spellings with one history. Read literally, Bover points to “Bow maker, or dweller by a cottage”.

Spelled with “v” instead of “w”, Bover shows how the same name was heard and written differently. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. Spanish statistics put 1,144 people with Bover in first position and 1,077 in second. Similar-sounding surnames on Herald Lab: Bovier and Bouvier.

Research your Bover family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.