as a Last Name
- 12,285
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Garvin
Meaning & Origins
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Gairbhín ‘descendant of Gairbhín’, a personal name derived from a diminutive of garbh ‘rough’, ‘cruel’.
| 2,541st in the U.S. for 2011 |
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 12,285
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- South Carolina
- has the most people named Garvin per capita
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