Nevin Family History
- Nevin Name Meaning
- Scottish and Irish (Leinster): reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Naoimhín, a patronymic from a personal name representing a diminutive of naomh ‘saint’. Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cnáimhín ‘son of Cnámhín’, a Galway name, or Ó Cnáimhín, a Munster name meaning ‘descendant of Cnámhín’, a byname meaning ‘little bone’, used to refer to a thin man.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 162,084 Historical Documents with Nevin on Ancestry
- 63,409 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 38,994 Census and Voter Lists
- 6,612 Military Records
- 9,040 Immigration Records
- 44,029 Member Trees
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Number of Nevin families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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