Lavin Family History

Irish (Sligo Roscommon Mayo): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Láimhín, a shortened 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 shortened form to lámh ‘hand’.

Irish (Tipperary): variant of Laffin. English (Cornwall): of Norman origin from an Anglo-Norman French and Middle English female personal name Lavin. It derives either from Latin Lavinia, the name of the second wife of Aeneas in Virgil's Aeneid or perhaps from a female form of the Anglo-Norman French male personal name Lafin inferred at Laffin.

Spanish (Lavín): habitational name from Lavin, a place so named in the Cantabria province. Swedish: from an unidentified first element + the adjectival suffix -in, a derivative of Latin -in(i)us ‘relating to’.

French (Somme): perhaps from either of the Old French personal names inferred at. This surname is very rare in France.