Gavino is a male

given name A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a f ...

. It is common in

Sardinia Sardinia ( ; ; ) is the Mediterranean islands#By area, second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, and one of the Regions of Italy, twenty regions of Italy. It is located west of the Italian Peninsula, north of Tunisia an ...

, due to its being the Italianised form of the

Sardinian language Sardinian or Sard ( , , , , or , ) is a Romance languages, Romance language spoken by the Sardinians on the Western Mediterranean island of Sardinia. The original character of the Sardinian language among the Romance idioms has long been know ...

personal name or . Saint Gavinus ( San Gavino, Porto Torres,

) was an early Christian martyr, a former Roman centurion beheaded in 300 AD, whose head was thrown in the

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before being reunited with his body. Despite its form, it is unrelated to Gavin, dating back to ancient

Latin Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area aroun ...

(meaning 'from

Gabii Gabii was an ancient city of Latium, located due east of Rome along the Via Praenestina, which was in early times known as the ''Via Gabina''. It was on the south-eastern perimeter of an extinct volcanic crater lake, approximately circular i ...

'). However, sometimes Gavin is used to translate the Latin name . People with the given name include: *

Gavino Angius Gavino Angius (born 18 November 1946) is an Italian people, Italian politician. Biography Born at Sassari (Sardinia), after the degree in Political science, Political Sciences, he became a member of the Italian Communist Party (PCI), for which h ...

(born 1946), Italian politician * Gavino Contini (1855–1915), Sardinian-Italian poet * Gavino Gabriel (1881–1980), Italian composer and musicologist * Gavino Ledda (born 1938), Italian writer and scholar * Gavino Matta (1910–1954), Italian boxer

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