Kevin
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Kevin is the anglicized form of the Irish masculine given name '''''' (; ; ; Latinized as ). It is composed of "dear; noble"; Old Irish and ("birth"; Old Irish ).
Key facts
- Name.name
- Kevin
- Name.gender
- Masculine
- Name.language
- English
- Name.origin
- Caoimhín
- Name.meaning
- 'of noble birth'
- Name.variant forms
- Caoimheán, Kevan, Kevyn
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- given name
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- language of work or name
- Dutch
- name day
- September 7
- Commons category
- Kevin (given name)
- different from
- Kevin
- native label
- Kevin
- writing system
- Latin script
- Soundex
- K150
- Cologne phonetics
- 436
- Caverphone
- KFN111
- nickname
- Kev
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Kevin is the anglicized form of the Irish masculine given name '''' (; ; ; Latinized as ). It is composed of "dear; noble"; Old Irish and ("birth"; Old Irish ).
The variant Kevan is anglicised from , an Irish diminutive form. The feminine version of the name is (anglicised as Keeva or Kweeva).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kevin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.