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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Hispanic (not found in present-day Spain but common in Mexico) : it may derive from cervin ‘deer’ (Latin cervus).
  • French : habitational name from a place in Doubs, recorded in the 14th century as Cervins.

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