Gauvain Name Origin and Family Crest

Gauvain is an established spelling of the Irish surname Gavin. Taken at its root, Gauvain points to “Irish Ó Gáibhín”.

How the spelling arose

Before spelling was fixed, Gavin was also written Gauvain. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The same family of names includes Gauvin, Gavan and Gavine.

208 Americans were listed as Gauvain in the 2010 census. French birth records list 1,686 children named Gauvain between 1891 and 2000. Births ran at 37 in 1891–1900 and 167 in 1991–2000. Similar-sounding surnames on Herald Lab: Gavina.

Family crest and blazon

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