Members of this gens occur in history toward the end of the Republic, and from then to at least the fourth century.
They produced generations of Roman senators, with Gaius Ovinius Tertullus obtaining the consulship toward the end of the second century.
[1] The nomen Ovinius belongs to a class of gentilicia formed from other names using the suffix -inius.
In this case, it seems to be a patronymic surname derived from the Oscan praenomen Ovius.
Camillus was an ancient cognomen referring to a youth in the service of a priestly office, and was made famous by the dictator Marcus Furius Camillus during the fourth century BC.