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Alvin
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alvin
English
Alternative forms
en Alvyn Elvin
Etymology
From en ang Ælfwine, made up of ang ælf elf wine friend 1.
Pronunciation
en /ˈælvɪn/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Alvin.wav Southern England
en ælvɪn 2
Proper noun
en male Old English.
en number of places c/USA:
en locality co/Yuma County s/Colorado.
en ucomm co/Madison County s/Georgia.
en village twp:Suf/South Ross co/Vermilion County s/Illinois.
en ucomm twp:Suf/Mikado co/Alcona County s/Michigan.
en city co/Brazoria County s/Texas, named after Santa Fe employee Alvin Morgan.
en town/and/ucomm therein, in co/Forest County s/Wisconsin, named after Baptist minister Alvin Spencer.
en locality in the r/Lower Mainland p/British Columbia c/Canada.
Usage notes
Always rare in Britain but revived in the USA in the nineteenth century.
Related terms
en Alwin Alwyn Darwin Elwin Edwin Godwin Goldwyn Irwin Oswin
Translations
male given name meaning "elf friend"
Albanian: sq Alvin
Arabic: ar أَلْفِين
Azerbaijani: az Elvin
Bulgarian: bg Алвин
Catalan: ca Alvin
Cebuano: ceb Alvin
Czech: cs Alvin
Danish: da Alvin
Dutch: nl Alvin
Estonian: et Alvin
Finnish: fi Alvin
French: fr Alvin
German: de Albwin, de Albuin, de Alvin
Greek: el Άλβιν
Hebrew: he אלווין
Hindi: hi एलविन
Hungarian: hu Alvin
Icelandic: is Alvin
Italian: it Alvin
Japanese: ja アルビン Arubin
Korean: ko 앨빈
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ckb ئاڵڤین
Latvian: lv Alvins
Lithuanian: lt Alvinas
Persian: fa آلوین âlvin
Polish: pl Alvin
Portuguese: pt Alvin
Romanian: ro Alvin
Russian: ru Элвин
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Алвин
Latin: sh Alvin
Slovak: sk Alvin
Slovene: sl Alvin
Spanish: es Alvin
Swedish: sv Alvin
Tagalog: tl Alvin
Tamil: ta அல்வின்
Telugu: te ఆల్విన్
Thai: th แอลวิน, th อัลวิน
Turkish: tr Alvin
Ukrainian: uk Елвін
Vietnamese: vi Alvin
See also
en Albin
References
Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: A Concise Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press 2001.
Anagrams
en ailnv Lavin Vilna anvil nival vinal
Cebuano
Etymology
ceb :der en:Alvin + 1
Proper noun
ceb noun
ceb male English < Old English
Tagalog
Etymology
tl :bor en:Alvin + 1
Pronunciation
Proper noun
+
tl male English < Old English