Boivin (French: from bois vin "(you) drink wine" (from the Old French verb boire "to drink" + vin "wine") used as a nickname for a (heavy) drinker) is a surname from France. Boivin is a combination of the French words bois (verb boire "to drink") and vin, which mean "drink" and "wine" respectively.[1] The surname refers to someone who drinks (too much) wine.[2]
Persons in France
- François de Boivin (died 1618), French chronicler
- Jean-Marc Boivin (1951–1990), French mountaineer and BASE jumper born in Dijon
- Jean Boivin the Younger or Jean Boivin de Villeneuve (1663–Paris), French writer, scholar and translator
- Jeanne Poiret Boivin (1871-1959), French jewelry designer
- Jérôme Boivin, film director (such as the 1989 horror film Baxter)
- Louis Boivin, brother of Jean Boivin, born in 1649, died in 1724, member of the Academy of inscriptions
- Louis Hyacinthe Boivin (1808-1852), French botanist with the standard author abbreviation "Boivin"
- Marie Boivin (1773–1841), French midwife, inventor, and obstetrics writer
- Michel Boivin, French historian and anthropologist who specializes in the Muslim world
- Olivier Boivin (b. 1985), French sprint canoer
Persons in Canada
- Arthur Boivin (died 1952), politician in Manitoba, Canada
- Claude Boivin (born 1970), retired Canadian professional ice hockey player
- François Boivin (born 1982), Canadian snowboarder
- Françoise Boivin (born 1960), Canadian politician
- Georges Henri Boivin (1882–1926), Canadian politician
- Guillaume Boivin (born 1989), Canadian cyclist
- Joseph Robert Bernard Boivin (1916–1985), Canadian botanist usually referred to as Bernard Boivin
- Leo Boivin (1931–2021), retired Canadian professional ice hockey defenseman
- Nicole Boivin (born 1970), Canadian archaeological scientist
- Pierre Boivin (born 1953), French Canadian businessman
- Pierre-Horace Boivin, former mayor of Granby, Quebec
- Roch Boivin (1912–1979), Canadian politician
Persons in United States
- Harry D. Boivin (1904–1999), American lawyer and politician
- Joseph Boivin, co-founder, first President of St.Mary's Bank, America's first credit union
References
- ↑ Albert Dauzat, Noms et prénoms de France, Librairie Larousse 1980, édition revue et commentée par Marie-Thérèse Morlet, p. 49a.
- ↑ DAUZAT 49
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