Last name origins & meanings:
- Irish (County Louth): variant of Devine 1.
- English
and French: variant of Devine 2.
- French: from devin
‘sorcerer’, ‘fortune teller’ (related to the verb deviner ‘to
divine’, ‘foretell’).
- Russian: metronymic from deva
‘girl’, normally a designation of an illegitimate child. Sometimes it
may be a patronymic from a nickname for an effeminate man.
- A Breton bearer of this name was married in Quebec city in 1692.
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