The devin Surname
devin Name Meaning and History
- Irish (County Louth): variant of Devine 1.
- English and French: variant of Devine 2.
- French: from devin ‘sorcerer’, ‘fortune teller’ (related to the verb deviner ‘to divine’, ‘foretell’).
- Russian: metronymic from deva ‘girl’, normally a designation of an illegitimate child. Sometimes it may be a patronymic from a nickname for an effeminate man.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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