Colvin Family History

Scottish and Irish (Donegal Antrim): variant of Colville probably reflecting a local pronunciation. The name was taken to Ulster in the 17th century.

Manx: if not identical with the first variant, perhaps from the Old Norse personal name Kolbeinn with /v/ substituted for /b/.

English: from the rare Middle English personal name Colwin or Colvin, which may be a borrowing into English of a Welsh name whose modern form is Collwyn ‘white’, or of colwyn ‘doe, puppy, pet dog’, or of the placename Colwyn (Denbighshire, Radnorshire).