Lavin

Girl name variations

Family name origins & meanings

• Irish (Connacht) : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Láimhín, a reduced form of Ó Flaithimhín ‘descendant of Flaithimhín’, a personal name from a diminutive of flaith ‘prince’, ‘ruler’. This name is sometimes translated Hand, from the similarity of the reduced form to lámh ‘hand’.
• English : from the medieval female personal name Lavin(a) (from Latin Lavinia, of unknown origin)
• Spanish (Lavín) : habitational name from Lavin, a place so named in the Santander province.
• Respelling of French Lavigne.