Family name origins & meanings
- English : topographic name for someone who lived by the ‘upper pasture’, from Middle English uvere ‘over’, ‘higher’ + feld(e) ‘pasture’, ‘open country’, or a habitational name from a place named with these elements.
- Americanized form of Dutch Overfelt or of German Oberfeld, a topographic name from ober ‘upper’, ‘up above’ + feld ‘open country’.