Devin: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

Clerks wrote Devine in many ways, and Devin is one that stuck. Surname dictionaries give the meaning as “Descendant of Daimhín (little stag)”.

A variant of Devine

Devin drops the “e” of Devine, a simplification that clerks often made.

Devin by the numbers

The 2010 US Census counted 1,331 people named Devin, ranking it number 20,076 among American surnames. French civil records give 3,422 births under the name Devin from 1891 to 2000, peaking in 1961–1970.

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