Gavin Forename
Approximately 171,723 people bear this name
Gavin Forename Definition:
A male name. the character who appears as Gauvain in French, and Gawayne in English medieval versions of the Arthurian cycle, is in Welsh sources named Gwalchmai, a compound of gwalch ‘hawk’ and Mei the month of May. Geoffrey of Monmouth calls him Walganus, and it has been suggested that Gwalchmai had an alternative name Gwalchgwyn ‘white hawk’, which became Walganus and thence Gauvain.
Read More About This ForenameGavin Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| England | 100% | 50,733 | 1:1,096 | 232 |
| South Africa | 100% | 25,575 | 1:2,132 | 359 |
| United States | 100% | 21,534 | 1:16,836 | 1,477 |
| Australia | - | 18,650 | 1:732 | 166 |
| Scotland | 100% | 9,644 | 1:555 | 124 |
| New Zealand | - | 7,160 | 1:634 | 148 |
| Wales | 100% | 5,246 | 1:590 | 139 |
| Canada | 100% | 5,231 | 1:6,334 | 906 |
| Mozambique | - | 4,320 | 1:6,306 | 1,134 |
| Ireland | 100% | 3,327 | 1:1,396 | 240 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 2,432 | 1:8,552 | 1,329 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 2,128 | 1:866 | 190 |
| China | - | 2,093 | 1:652,678 | 29,023 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 1,282 | 1:24,035 | 3,052 |
| Kenya | - | 878 | 1:52,742 | 3,503 |
| Guyana | 100% | 814 | 1:938 | 133 |
| India | 100% | 784 | 1:1,549,589 | 87,952 |
| Namibia | - | 699 | 1:3,439 | 571 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 535 | 1:482,175 | 36,662 |
| Thailand | 100% | 535 | 1:130,964 | 10,062 |
| Malaysia | 99% | 475 | 1:64,105 | 5,014 |
| Malawi | 100% | 423 | 1:40,455 | 2,904 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 423 | 1:39,958 | 2,968 |
| Singapore | 100% | 409 | 1:15,372 | 3,131 |
| Ghana | - | 393 | 1:68,667 | 3,308 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 351 | 1:43,942 | 3,953 |
| Jamaica | - | 334 | 1:8,632 | 1,053 |
| Poland | 100% | 330 | 1:115,234 | 2,410 |
| Hong Kong | - | 272 | 1:28,503 | 2,353 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 242 | 1:29,554 | 2,882 |
| Germany | 100% | 217 | 1:445,520 | 4,955 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 216 | 1:822,057 | 21,912 |
| Japan | - | 203 | 1:630,473 | 12,315 |
| Philippines | 97% | 202 | 1:524,799 | 17,295 |
| Zambia | - | 186 | 1:85,241 | 4,310 |
| Swaziland | - | 179 | 1:7,264 | 1,100 |
| France | 100% | 172 | 1:386,455 | 4,693 |
| Qatar | 100% | 166 | 1:14,275 | 2,208 |
| Bahrain | - | 148 | 1:9,113 | 1,459 |
| Fiji | - | 144 | 1:6,197 | 1,398 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 137 | 1:59,953 | 2,402 |
| Egypt | - | 130 | 1:706,930 | 15,746 |
| Suriname | 100% | 115 | 1:4,807 | 1,027 |
| Kuwait | - | 104 | 1:36,397 | 3,425 |
| Brazil | 100% | 101 | 1:2,121,150 | 43,813 |
| Botswana | 100% | 100 | 1:21,844 | 2,610 |
| Uganda | 98% | 91 | 1:450,076 | 10,922 |
| Guernsey | 100% | 89 | 1:712 | 166 |
| Portugal | - | 83 | 1:125,432 | 3,169 |
| Spain | 100% | 83 | 1:560,602 | 6,707 |
| Sweden | 98% | 82 | 1:120,218 | 4,897 |
| Malta | - | 74 | 1:5,802 | 734 |
| Belgium | 100% | 73 | 1:157,398 | 4,346 |
| Jersey | 100% | 73 | 1:1,370 | 291 |
| DR Congo | 100% | 68 | 1:1,085,700 | 31,208 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 64 | 1:21,272 | 2,472 |
| Bermuda | - | 62 | 1:1,046 | 227 |
| Norway | 100% | 60 | 1:85,539 | 2,933 |
| Denmark | - | 54 | 1:104,620 | 2,976 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 53 | 1:1,875 | 402 |
| Iraq | - | 53 | 1:660,714 | 6,510 |
| Papua New Guinea | 100% | 53 | 1:153,817 | 13,456 |
| Barbados | - | 49 | 1:5,914 | 828 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 100% | 48 | 1:1,143 | 266 |
| Gibraltar | - | 41 | 1:833 | 177 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 28 | 1:6,351 | 1,010 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 26 | 1:831,173 | 23,165 |
| Estonia | 100% | 26 | 1:50,592 | 2,900 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 24 | 1:24,207 | 1,862 |
| South Korea | - | 24 | 1:231,018 | 8,270 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 23 | 1:1,033,464 | 39,019 |
| Italy | 100% | 22 | 1:2,775,550 | 17,247 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 21 | 1:1,438,185 | 27,865 |
| Belize | 100% | 20 | 1:17,715 | 2,114 |
| Congo | 100% | 18 | 1:278,289 | 6,631 |
| Mexico | 88% | 18 | 1:6,896,913 | 24,317 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 18 | 1:2,932,684 | 23,284 |
| Austria | 100% | 17 | 1:500,835 | 4,712 |
| Greece | 100% | 17 | 1:643,209 | 7,655 |
| Angola | - | 16 | 1:1,685,413 | 2,877 |
| Madagascar | - | 16 | 1:1,476,838 | 2,504 |
| Finland | 86% | 13 | 1:421,783 | 5,250 |
| Nepal | 75% | 13 | 1:2,191,335 | 33,475 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 13 | 1:20,782 | 1,589 |
| Oman | - | 12 | 1:342,389 | 4,330 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 11 | 1:2,841 | 595 |
| Pakistan | 75% | 11 | 1:17,668,880 | 95,124 |
| Guam | - | 10 | 1:16,065 | 1,791 |
| Hungary | 100% | 10 | 1:979,177 | 2,758 |
| Peru | 89% | 10 | 1:3,179,145 | 27,401 |
| Russia | 100% | 10 | 1:14,423,370 | 48,053 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 10 | 1:11,158 | 1,580 |
| Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | - | 9 | 1:648 | 154 |
| Somalia | - | 9 | 1:1,502,874 | 3,918 |
| Sudan | - | 9 | 1:4,200,775 | 4,893 |
| Vietnam | - | 9 | 1:10,291,457 | 4,134 |
| Argentina | - | 8 | 1:5,346,655 | 13,183 |
| Czechia | 100% | 8 | 1:1,332,020 | 3,968 |
| Grenada | 100% | 8 | 1:13,516 | 1,533 |
| Macau | - | 8 | 1:76,026 | 700 |
| Myanmar | - | 8 | 1:6,493,534 | 1,948 |
| Afghanistan | - | 6 | 1:5,437,253 | 29,511 |
| American Samoa | - | 6 | 1:9,308 | 1,982 |
| Bahamas | - | 6 | 1:66,562 | 1,346 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 6 | 1:10,216 | 1,399 |
| Falkland Islands | - | 6 | 1:524 | 108 |
| Isle of Man | 100% | 6 | 1:14,170 | 269 |
| Maldives | - | 6 | 1:72,317 | 2,029 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 6 | 1:9,111 | 1,173 |
| Azerbaijan | - | 5 | 1:1,928,589 | 20,785 |
| Brunei | - | 5 | 1:83,914 | 1,339 |
| Romania | - | 5 | 1:4,010,395 | 28,162 |
| Anguilla | 100% | 4 | 1:3,314 | 681 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 4 | 1:1,191,987 | 12,292 |
| Ethiopia | - | 4 | 1:24,390,033 | 19,296 |
| Gabon | 100% | 4 | 1:470,834 | 2,822 |
| Israel | 88% | 4 | 1:2,100,730 | 20,870 |
| Jordan | - | 4 | 1:2,206,694 | 7,695 |
| Laos | - | 4 | 1:1,646,714 | 900 |
| Libya | - | 4 | 1:1,555,327 | 1,779 |
| Mauritius | 100% | 4 | 1:324,446 | 5,754 |
| Panama | - | 4 | 1:976,639 | 21,104 |
| Cambodia | - | 3 | 1:5,424,443 | 41,412 |
| Ecuador | - | 3 | 1:5,908,973 | 18,111 |
| Liberia | 100% | 3 | 1:1,470,687 | 25,732 |
| Luxembourg | - | 3 | 1:188,016 | 3,003 |
| Bulgaria | - | 2 | 1:3,495,195 | 19,668 |
| Colombia | - | 2 | 1:23,889,463 | 63,722 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 2 | 1:435,538 | 3,859 |
| El Salvador | - | 2 | 1:3,170,893 | 11,665 |
| Georgia | - | 2 | 1:1,869,233 | 20,119 |
| Honduras | - | 2 | 1:4,408,734 | 23,808 |
| Kazakhstan | - | 2 | 1:8,873,422 | 35,327 |
| Nauru | 100% | 2 | 1:5,964 | 459 |
| Chile | 100% | 1 | 1:17,607,208 | 48,996 |
| Cook Islands | - | 1 | 1:18,153 | 1,349 |
| Croatia | - | 1 | 1:4,217,076 | 20,943 |
| Curaçao | - | 1 | 1:155,803 | 1,239 |
| Dominica | - | 1 | 1:75,471 | 1,341 |
| East Timor | - | 1 | 1:1,218,375 | 811 |
| French Polynesia | - | 1 | 1:277,902 | 3,605 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 1 | 1:16,108,429 | 13,998 |
| Guinea | - | 1 | 1:11,858,647 | 7,978 |
| Haiti | - | 1 | 1:10,726,953 | 41,696 |
| Iceland | - | 1 | 1:366,017 | 7,938 |
| Ivory Coast | - | 1 | 1:23,075,933 | 135,227 |
| Kyrgyzstan | - | 1 | 1:5,973,277 | 46,622 |
| Latvia | - | 1 | 1:2,015,645 | 6,531 |
| Lebanon | - | 1 | 1:5,627,571 | 19,299 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 1 | 1:2,039,997 | 47,971 |
| North Macedonia | - | 1 | 1:2,090,757 | 15,787 |
| Monaco | 100% | 1 | 1:38,466 | 2,379 |
| Nicaragua | - | 1 | 1:6,018,336 | 34,175 |
| Norfolk Island | - | 1 | 1:2,324 | 291 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 1 | 1:7,236,805 | 16,549 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 1 | 1:3,550,301 | 10,040 |
| Samoa | - | 1 | 1:195,190 | 1,348 |
| Senegal | - | 1 | 1:14,581,356 | 34,505 |
| Serbia | - | 1 | 1:7,145,721 | 10,629 |
| Seychelles | 100% | 1 | 1:92,670 | 1,891 |
| Slovakia | - | 1 | 1:5,310,063 | 9,949 |
| Slovenia | - | 1 | 1:2,458,758 | 6,723 |
| Turkey | - | 1 | 1:77,801,709 | 91,051 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | - | 1 | 1:34,707 | 1,398 |
| Ukraine | - | 1 | 1:45,499,908 | 32,056 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:109,747 | 4,493 |
| Uruguay | - | 1 | 1:3,427,637 | 13,958 |
| Yemen | - | 1 | 1:26,296,751 | 14,474 |
Gavin (39,145) may also be a surname.
Gavin Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A male name. the character who appears as Gauvain in French, and Gawayne in English medieval versions of the Arthurian cycle, is in Welsh sources named Gwalchmai, a compound of gwalch ‘hawk’ and Mei the month of May. Geoffrey of Monmouth calls him Walganus, and it has been suggested that Gwalchmai had an alternative name Gwalchgwyn ‘white hawk’, which became Walganus and thence Gauvain. This not very convincing etymology, based on an unsupported assumption, is, however, the best yet put forward. No one seems to have noticed the existence of an Old German name Gawin, a derivative of Gavja ‘a district of land’, which is found from the 7th C. E. Förstemann, Altdeutsches Namenbuch gives several examples of it, the earliest a Bishop Gavinus 633, another Bishop Gavienus (of Tours), and persons called Gavin and Goin. The English Gawayne, Gawn, Gawin or Gawen, and the French Gauvain, Gavin were fairly common in the Middle Ages and were still used at the end of the 17th C. Gavin has survived in Scotland where it is still quite common.
Gawyne Hundred Rolls 1273. Gawyn Poll Tax of West Riding of Yorkshire 1379 1379. Gawin Allegations for Marriage Licences issued by the Bishop of London 1520-1828 1530. Gawen Lancashire Wills (1531-1760) 1669, 1680, 1687. Gavin Yorks Rec 1604. Gawne Ulverston Ch 1653.
A mainly Scottish name (m.), Gavin in its Celtic original means ‘hawk of battle’. It is better known in the form Gawain.
GAWAN, GAWEN. Old Scotch male names. From Gael, gobhainn, a blacksmith.
A Celtic name, meaning: Hawk of battle.
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Gavin Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Gavin in the Russian language | ||
| Гавин | gavin | - |
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