Boy name origins & meanings Old English : Sea friend Boy name variations Irving Irvin Irwin Irwyn Irven Irvinn Irvon Irvyn Irvyne Family name origins & meanings Scottish, also common in northern Ireland : habitational name from Irvine in Ayrshire, which is named from a Celtic river, Welsh ir, yr ‘green’, ‘fresh’ + afon ‘water’. There has been much confusion with Irving and Irwin.
