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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish (Counties Cavan and Meath) : reduced form of O’Tevlin, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Teibhlin ‘descendant of Teibhlin’, a personal name of unknown origin (possibly related to Shevlin).

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