The story
- Old Irish · derived fromCóemgen
- Irish · derived fromCaoimhghin
- English todayKevin
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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.