When Irene Anna Colvin was born on 5 April 1924, in East Syracuse, DeWitt, Onondaga, New York, United States, her father, Lee Franklin Colvin, was 29 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Russell, was 26. She died in 1926, at the age of 2.
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Scottish and Irish (Donegal, Antrim): variant of Colville , probably reflecting a local pronunciation. The name was taken to Ulster in the 17th century.
Manx: if not identical with 1, perhaps from the Old Norse personal name Kolbeinn, with /v/ substituted for /b/.
English: from the rare Middle English personal name Colwin, Colvin, which may be a borrowing into English of a Welsh name whose modern form is Collwyn ‘white’, or of colwyn ‘doe, puppy, pet dog’, or of the placename Colwyn (Denbighshire, Radnorshire).
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