When Elva Maria Bain was born on 3 April 1936, in Oakland, Alameda, California, United States, her father, Delbert Leroy Bain, was 24 and her mother, Mary Tiexiera, was 25. She married Howard C. Gabriel on 10 July 1954, in Alameda, California, United States. She lived in Oakland Judicial Township, Alameda, California, United States in 1940. She died on 9 September 2012, in Oakland, Alameda, California, United States, at the age of 76.
Scottish, Manx, and Irish: nickname for a fair-haired man, from Gaelic bàn, Irish bán ‘white, fair’. This surname is common in the Highlands, first recorded in Perth in 1324. It is also found as a shortened form of McBain , from Mac B(h)eathain. As a Manx name (spelled Bane) this may be a shortened form of Manx Macguilley Vane, equivalent to Irish Mac Giolla Bháin ‘son of the fair youth’. Compare Irish Kilbane .
English (northern) and Scottish: nickname for a hospitable person, from northern Middle English beyn, bayn ‘welcoming, friendly’ (Old Norse beinn ‘straight, direct’).
English (northern) and Scottish: nickname from northern Middle English bān, bain ‘bone, leg’ (Old English bān, Old Norse bein), perhaps denoting someone with a gammy leg. In northern Middle English -ā- was preserved, whereas in southern dialects (which later became standard), it was changed to -ō-.
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