Kevin

Etymology
Name of a seventh-century Irish saint, from or, from. It first became popular outside Ireland in the mid-twentieth century.

Proper noun

 * 1)  A working-class male.
 * 1)  A working-class male.

Related terms

 * Kev, Kevo, Kevinito

Translations

 * Arabic: كِيفِن
 * Breton: Kevin
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 奇雲
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: კევინ
 * German:
 * Greek:, Κεβίνος
 * Hebrew: קווין
 * Hindi: कैविन
 * Irish: Caoimhín
 * Japanese: ケヴィン, ケビン
 * Korean: ^케빈
 * Latin: Coemgenus
 * Portuguese: Kevin
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Thai: เควิน
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese: Kevin, Ke-vin

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Usage notes
The name Kevin has come to be an undesirable name after its period of popularity in the 1990s. It has come to represent lower-class low-intellect uncouth boorish behaviour.

Noun

 * 1)  A boorish lower-class person of low intellect

Etymology
. First popularised in the late 1970s after footballer, who played for from 1977 to 1980.

Usage notes

 * In recent decades, has become rather stigmatised in German-speaking Europe as a name typical of the uneducated classes. To a lesser degree the same is also true of other English given names (an interesting contrast to the otherwise high prestige of the English language).

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