Last name: GALVIN
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GALVIN : This last name is indexed 47,168 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
GALVIN : 1: Irish (Munster): shortened Anglicized form of Ó Gealbháin ‘descendant of Gealbhán’ a personal name from geal ‘bright’ + bán ‘white’.2: French: variant of Gauvain.
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