Etymology

Irving

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Today it means: A surname from Scottish Gaelic. Full definition →

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The story

Variant of the Scottish habitational surname Irvine, probably from a Celtic word cognate with Welsh ir, yr (“fresh”) + afon (“river”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.