Kevin

Name of a seventh-century Irish saint, from Irish Caoimhghin or Caoimhín, from Old Irish Cóemgen (literally “dear birth/person”). It first became popular outside Ireland in the mid-twentieth century.

• enPR: kĕ'vĭn, IPA^(key): /ˈkɛvɪn/, enPR: kĕ'vən, IPA^(key): /ˈkɛvən/

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• Rhymes: -ɛvɪn, -ɛvən

Kevin (plural Kevins)

1. A male given name from Irish.
   • 2021 January 28, Chandelis Duster, quoting David Hogg, “Parkland shooting survivor calls for House GOP leader to denounce Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     “My message to Kevin McCarthy is, take all of her committee assignments away … also, don’t support her when she runs for re-election again and try to get her primaried. If you say this is not your party, actually call it out and hold her accountable,” Hogg told CNN’s Alisyn Camerota on “New Day.”

2. (British, derogatory, slang) A working-class male.

   Synonym: Kev

• 1990, Ruth Rendell, Going Wrong, →ISBN, page 157:

  "Guy," he said. He said it slowly and with a certain puzzlement. He said it again, thoughtfully, as if it were a name of someone he had known long ago but couldn't quite place. "Guy. Yes - don't you find it difficult being called that? I mean, if Nora hadn't said, I'd have put you down as a Kevin, or a Barry. Yes, Barry would suit you."
  He looked like an innocent child, smiling, wide-eyed, his cheeks plump and rosy, defying the object of his insults to take offence.

• 1996, Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes, Harper Collins Publishers., →ISBN, page 203:

  They sit by the fire smoking and talking about names. Mam says she likes the names Kevin and Sean but Bridey says, Ah no, there's too many of them in Limerick. Jesus, Angela, if you stuck your head out of the door and called, Kevin or Sean, come in for your tea, you'd have half o' Limerick running to your door.

• (pet form) Kev, Kevo, Kevinito, Kevvy, Kevy

• → Breton: Kevin
• → Cebuano: Kevin
• → Chinese: 凱文 / 凯文 (Kǎiwén) (transliteration)
• → Danish: Kevin
• → Dutch: Kevin
• → Estonian: Kevin
• → French: Kevin, Kévin m
  • French: Kevine f
• → German: Kevin
• → Lithuanian: Kevinas
• → Norwegian: Kevin
• → Polish: Kewin
• → Portuguese: Kevin
• → Spanish: Kevin
• → Swedish: Kevin
• → Tagalog: Kevin

• knive

Kevin m

1. a male given name

Kevin m

1. a male given name

• Alain Stéphan, Tous les Prénoms bretons, 1996, Éditions Jean-Paul Gisserot, →ISBN, page 63

From English Kevin, from Irish Caoimhghin or Caoimhín, from Old Irish Cóemgen (literally “comely birth”).

• Hyphenation: Ke‧vin
• IPA^(key): /ˈkebin/ [ˈki.bɪn̪]

Kevin

1. a male given name from English

Recently borrowed from English Kevin.

Kevin

1. a male given name

Recently borrowed from English Kevin.

Kevin

1. a male given name

• Kévin, Keven, Kevyn, Keveen

Recently borrowed from English Kevin.

• IPA^(key): /ke.vin/

Kevin m

1. a male given name; masculine of Kevine

The name Kevin has come to be an undesirable name after its period of popularity in the 1990s. It has come to represent lower-class low-intellect uncouth boorish behaviour.^[1]

Kevin m (plural Kevins)

1. (slang, France) A boorish lower-class person of low intellect

Borrowed from English Kevin. First popularised in the late 1970s after footballer Kevin Keegan, who played for Hamburger SV from 1977 to 1980.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɛ.vɪn/

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Kevin m (proper noun, strong, genitive Kevins, plural Kevins)

1. a male given name

• In recent decades, Kevin has become rather stigmatised in German-speaking Europe as a name typical of the uneducated classes. To a lesser degree the same is also true of other English given names (an interesting contrast to the otherwise high prestige of the English language).

• Kevinismus

Recently borrowed from English Kevin.

Kevin

1. a male given name

Unadapted borrowing from English Kevin.

Kevin m

1. a male given name from English, equivalent to English Kevin

• Kevinho

Borrowed from English Kevin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkebin/ [ˈke.β̞ĩn]
• Rhymes: -ebin
• Syllabification: Ke‧vin

Kevin m

1. a male given name from English, equivalent to English Kevin

Recently borrowed from English Kevin.

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Kevin c (genitive Kevins)

1. a male given name

• Viken, viken