Coveney Surname: Origin, Meaning & Coat of Arms

Coveney is an English surname. Elsdon Smith's dictionary of American family names explains it as “one who came from Coveney (bay island), in Cambridgeshire”.

Where the name comes from

Place names like this marked newcomers by where they had come from.

The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Coveney with 704 bearers, at rank 32,632. That is enough to place it in the top 50,000 American surnames.

Arms associated with the name

Heraldry follows families, not surnames. A Coveney coat of arms, where one exists, belonged to a specific line.

Get the complete Coveney report, with a museum-style coat of arms.