Meaning and Origin of: Nevin

Boy name origins & meanings

  • German : Nephew
  • Irish : The servant of the saints

Boy name variations

Nevins
Neffe
Nefin
Nevyns
Nivyn
Nyvin

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish and Irish (Leinster) : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Naoimhín, a patronymic from a personal name representing a diminutive of naomh ‘saint’.
  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cnáimhín ‘son of Cnámhín’, a Galway name, or Ó Cnáimhín, a Munster name meaning ‘descendant of Cnámhín’, a byname meaning ‘little bone’, used to refer to a thin man.