Rovin
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Frequency: (109)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Origin uncertain. Possibly of Dutch origin, a variant of Roven, Raven, a patronymic from a short form of a Germanic personal name such as Walrave, formed with hrafn ‘raven’.
GIVEN NAME French 4%. Marcelle.
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