Kevin

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Kevin [ ˈkɛvɪn ] is an anglicized male given name of Irish origin.

Origin and meaning

The name comes from the Irish and first Old Irish as Coemgen [ koiṽʲʝʲenʲ occupied] middle irish Caoimhghín [ kəiṽʲʝiːnʲ ]. The present form is in Modern Irish Caoimhín ([ k ɰ Ivin ]). The well-known form Kevin is the Anglicized version of the Irish name.

The name is composed of the Irish caomh (Old Irish cóem ) "dear / dear, loved, belonging to the family, beautiful, noble" and -gin (Old Irish gein ) "birth, child".

name day

Name day is on June 3rd and June 6th . It refers to Kevin of Glendalough , a 7th century Irish saint.

Spread of the name

From the 1970s, the name Kevin first appeared in the German "hit parades" of naming. From 1977 to 1980 the well-known English professional footballer Kevin Keegan played for the German club Hamburger SV . However, the name did not reach any higher placements. From the end of the 1980s there were significantly more children with this name: From 1989 Kevin was among the 20 most common first names. In 1991 Kevin jumped to become the most popular German first name; this can be attributed to the successful film " Kevin - Alone at Home " and to the actor Kevin Costner , who made his international breakthrough this year. In the years that followed, up to around 2004, the name mostly remained among the 30 most popular.

Image of the name

Children and adolescents from the German-speaking area with the first name Kevin were often the target of derogatory jokes in the years in which he appeared very often; this is not known from other countries. This phenomenon became one of the subjects of study of Kevinism . Among other things, sociological studies that uncovered prejudices against the bearers of the name were published under this term, which was sometimes used as a joke.

variants

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cáem. Irish Language Dictionary, accessed April 15, 2018 (Irish, English).
  2. ↑ gein. Irish Language Dictionary, accessed April 15, 2018 (Irish, English).
  3. ↑ http://www.beliebte-vornamen.de/1989.htm
  4. ↑ http://www.beliebte-vornamen.de/1991.htm
  5. ↑ Popular-fornamen.de
  6. ↑ Katrin Pribyl: Kevinism: Does the classic lower-class name exist? , Die Welt , February 27, 2008, accessed on October 13, 2019.
    Guido Rijkho: Computer scientists from Kassel help with the name search for the baby . University of Kassel , March 26, 2012, accessed on October 13, 2019 (PDF, 89.8 kB).
  7. ↑ "Kevinism and Chantalism - that says it all" . In: Der Standard , September 17, 2009, accessed October 13, 2019.
  8. ↑ Rada języka Polskiego : Aneks do obowiązującego wykazu Imion. In: rjp.pan.pl. 2007, Retrieved November 16, 2012 (Polish).