French and English: metronymic from a feminine form of the regional
name from Old French angevin ‘man from Anjou’. Anjou is a
province of western France that was ruled by a count as an independent
territory from the 10th century. It became a property of the English
Crown for fifty years at the end of the 12th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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