CALVIN

The story of the name

Calvin is a masculine given name. It derives ultimately from Latin calvuscode: lat promoted to code: la ("bald") and the suffix -īnuscode: lat promoted to code: la , at least usually via the French descendants of these words. It has been particularly popular among French Protestants, who may be baptized as John Calvin, theologian, Protestant reformer and proponent of Calvinism, although in the judgement of the Oxford Dictionary of First Names, the modern given name "owes its popularity as much to the New York fashion designer Calvin Klein [b. 1942] as to the theologian".

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