What We Know About the O'Gnive Surname

O'Gnive is best understood together with Agnew: both are Scottish spellings of one family name. Name scholars give the meaning as “Place name”. Before spelling was fixed, Agnew was also written O'Gnive. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written.

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named O'Gnive, so the heraldry linked to Agnew is a starting point, not an automatic right. For the full story, order the O'Gnive surname pack.