as a Last Name
- 1,551
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Glavin
Meaning & Origins
Irish: 1. reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Gláimhin, from a diminutive of glámh ‘satirist’. 2. reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mag Láimhín, formerly Mag Fhlaithimhín, from flaitheamh ‘ruler’. Mag Láimhín has sometimes been ‘translated’Hand, from the similarity of the reduced form to lámh ‘hand’.
| 18,381st in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,551
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Massachusetts
- has the most people named Glavin per capita
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