Galvin Family History
- Galvin Name Meaning
- Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Gealbháin ‘descendant of Gealbhán’, a personal name from geal ‘bright’ + bán ‘white’. French: nickname for a cheerful drunkard, from Old French galer ‘to enjoy oneself’, also used in a transitive sense with the meaning ‘waste’, ‘consume’ + vin ‘wine’ (Latin vinum). French: from a variant of the personal name Gauvain (see Gavin).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 430,299 Historical Documents with Galvin on Ancestry
- 160,738 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 106,973 Census and Voter Lists
- 18,067 Military Records
- 20,568 Immigration Records
- 123,953 Member Trees
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Number of Galvin families
 137 - 271  46 - 136 |
 1 - 45  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Galvin families
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26 - 50 9 - 25 |
1 - 8 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Galvin census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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