The severin Surname
severin Name Meaning and History
- French (Séverin), Italian (Venice), German, Swedish, etc.: from a personal name, Latin Severinus, from the same root as Severus (see Severe). This was borne by several early Christian saints, including bishops of Trier (2nd century), Cologne (4th century), Bordeaux (5th century), and Santempeda (6th century), and hermits of Paris (6th century) and Tivoli (8th century), as well as a 5th-century apostle of Austria.
- Reduced form of Ashkenazic Jewish Severinovsky, a habitational name for someone from Severinovka in Ukraine.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| Thread | Author | Replies |
| Theodor Severin 1855 Magdeburg |
 marianozacarias
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| Severin in Australia |
dahlia59
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| Severin descendants | Severin (Severyn) | 14 |
| Severin, Marie (Mary) - Davenport, Iowa | Larry Widigen | 2 |
| Jean Severin, b. abt. 1560 |
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| Severin in Paese, Treviso, Veneto, Italy |
marianozacarias
| 0 |
| Severin - Schleswig-Holstein to Upstate, NY | G. Dufel | 1 |
| Finding my family roots | Patricia Severin (Plunkett) | 2 |
| SEVERIN(E) Sweden >KS |
Revae
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| Severin, Johan Conrad from Scania Sweden |
vipaka
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