Etymograph

English

Gavin

Gavin comes from Old French Gauvain.

  1. Old Frenchc. 842–1400Gauvain
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2009Gavin

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Old Frenchc. 842–1400Gauvain
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2009Gavin

Earliest quotation: 2009, Meet Number 16 Bus Shelter: “New Zealand registration officials apparently blocked other questionable names…”

The story

Medieval variant of Gawain, the name of an Arthurian knight, first recorded as Old French Gauvain. The form Gavin survived in Scotland and spread to other English-speaking countries in the 1960s.

Every English word from Old French Gauvain

Today it means

name A male given name from the Celtic languages.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Old French Gauvain / Gavin

Shirt and support for this word