Galvin Family History
Galvin Name Meaning
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó
Gealbháin ‘descendant of Gealbhán’, a personal name
from geal ‘bright’ + bán ‘white’.French:
nickname for a cheerful drunkard, from Old French galer ‘to
enjoy oneself’, also used in a transitive sense with the meaning
‘waste’, ‘consume’ + vin ‘wine’ (Latin vinum).French: from a variant of the personal name Gauvain (see
Gavin).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Galvin
Name Distribution of Galvin Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Galvin families
 231 - 460  78 - 230 |
 1 - 77  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Galvin families
|
137 - 271 46 - 136 |
1 - 45 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Galvin families
|
6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Galvin Family Origin
Galvin Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Galvin
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Galvin Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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