as a Last Name
- 7,083
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Lavin
Meaning & Origins
Irish (Connacht): reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Láimhín, a reduced form of Ó Flaithimhín ‘descendant of Flaithimhín’, a personal name from a diminutive of flaith ‘prince’, ‘ruler’. This name is sometimes translated Hand, from the similarity of the reduced form to lámh ‘hand’.
| 4,984th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 7,083
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Massachusetts
- has the most people named Lavin per capita
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