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devlin Name Meaning and History

Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dobhailéin ‘descendant of Dobhailéan’, a personal name of uncertain origin, probably from a diminutive of dobhail ‘unlucky’, ‘unfortunate’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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devlin Family Facts

Distribution of devlin Families in the US in 1920
Number of devlin families
 238-474
 80-237		 1-79
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