Devin Family History
Devin Name Meaning
Irish: variant of Devine English Irish and French: nickname of literal or ironic application from Middle English devin divin Old French devin ‘divine’. Compare Devine French: nickname from devin ‘sorcerer fortune teller’ (related to the verb deviner ‘to divine foretell’). Compare Devine Russian: metronymic from deva ‘girl’ normally a designation of an illegitimate child. Perhaps also a patronymic from a nickname for an effeminate man. Jewish (American): shortened form of Jewish (from Eastern Europe) Devinisky or Devinishsky: habitational name from the town in Lithuania called Devenishki in Russian and Dieveniškės in Lithuanian.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022