Name meaning and origin

Kevin

Irish/Gaelic: Handsome, beautiful birth, gentle

Where the name comes from

  • Irish/Gaelic
    Handsome, beautiful birth, gentle
    Caoimhín from caomh (gentle, beautiful) + gein (birth)

Kevin across traditions

  • Irish Catholic. Saint Kevin of Glendalough - hermit and miracle worker
  • Celtic. Associated with beauty of spirit and gentle nature

Forms in other languages

Kev, Caoimhín, Kevan, Kevyn

Kevin in letter-number systems

Hebrew, Greek and other traditions gave every letter a number, and read meaning into the totals. These are the counts, computed; the readings are inside the Innerverse.

91
Hebrew Standard
1
Hebrew Ordinal
61
English Simple
366
English Sumerian
74
English Reverse
87
Greek Isopsephy
1
Chaldean
7
Pythagorean

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