Glover surname meaning

Glover is an English occupational surname for a maker or seller of gloves. Middle English glover and related spellings appear in bynames for people working in the glove trade, a craft that could generate the surname independently in many towns. Glovere, Glouere, and Gloifer preserve older record forms, while a similar modern spelling does not prove a shared workshop. Occupation is the high-confidence catalog type because the trade word is clear. A modern Glover need not have inherited a particular guild connection; the surname preserves an old job label after the original work stopped being hereditary.