Irvine

  • [ UR-vien, UR-vin ]
  • English, Scottish
Variant of IRVING.

IRVING   male   English, Scottish, Jewish
From a Scottish surname which was in turn derived from a Scottish place name meaning "green water". Historically this name has been relatively common among Jews, who have used it as an American-sounding form of Hebrew names beginning with I such as Isaac, Israel and Isaiah. A famous bearer was the Russian-American songwriter and lyricist Irving Berlin (1888-1989), whose birth name was Israel Beilin.
EQUIVALENTS
ENGLISH: Irvin, Irvine, Irving
JEWISH: Irving
SCOTTISH: Irvine, Irving
OTHER FORMS
ENGLISH: Irvin, Irving
JEWISH: Irving
SCOTTISH: Irving