Proper name: OVI′NIUS. 1. The proposer of a plebiscitum, of uncertain date, which gave the censors certain powers in regulating the list of the senators. Respecting the provisions of this law, see Dict. of Ant. s. v. Lex Ovinia. 2. Q. Ovinius, a Roman senator, was put to death by Octavianus on the conquest of M. Antonius and Cleopatra, because he had disgraced himself by taking charge of the lanificium and textrinum of the Egyptian queen. (Oros. vi. 19.) 3. Ovinius Camillus, a senator of an ancient family, had meditated rebellion against Alexander Severus, but instead of being punished was kindly treated by this emperor. (Lamprid. Alex. Sev. 48.) 4. L. Ovinius Rusticus Cornelianus, consul A. D. 237, with P. Titius Perpetuus (Fasti). (Wikisource | public domain)

Ŏvīnĭus (noun M) : id.
* A Roman surname: nomina multa habemus ab utroque pecore, a minore Porcius, Ovinius, Caprilius,Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 10.

Male Personal name
Confirmed occurences in the Roman Empire:

• L. Caesonius Ovinius Manlius Rufinianus Bassus (Masc, senator), ref: PIR O 0186 | PIR ID3352
• Ovinius (Masc, senator), ref: PIR O 0181 | PIR ID9967
• Q. Ovinius (Masc, senator), ref: PIR O 0182 | PIR ID9968
• L. Ovinius Africanus (Masc, senator), ref: PIR O 0183 | PIR ID9969
• Ovinius Camillus (Masc, senator), ref: PIR O 0184 | PIR ID9970
• L. Ovinius Curius Proculus Modianus Africanus (Masc, senator), ref: PIR O 0185 | PIR ID9971
• Ovinius Pacatianus (Masc, senator), ref: PIR O 0187 | PIR ID9972
• Ovinius Paternus (Masc, senator), ref: PIR O 0188 | PIR ID9973
• L. Ovinius Pudens Capella (Masc, senator), ref: PIR O 0189 | PIR ID9974
• L. Ovinius Rusticus Cornelianus (Masc, senator), ref: PIR O 0190 | PIR ID9975
• C. Ovinius Severianus Victorinus (Masc, senator), ref: AE 1986, 270 | PIR ID9976
• C. Ovinius Tertullus (Masc, senator), ref: PIR O 0191 | PIR ID9977
• L. Ovinius Vopiscus (Masc, eques), ref: AE 1995, 1217 | PIR ID9978
• M. Tineius Ovinius Castus Pulcher (Masc, senator), ref: PIR T1 0167 | PIR ID13159