Selwyn (name)


Selwyn is a given name and surname.
It may have originated from the Middle English personal name, Selewyne and from the Old English personal name Selewine, putting together the words sele 'hall' + wine 'friend' or 'sea friend'. Other research indicates a French origin, from Salvagin, meaning 'wild person', introduced during the Norman Conquest, and may well have been used as a joke, meaning someone who was the opposite of wild. It may have come from the Latin Silvanus or Salvin, a Roman clan name connected to the God of the Forest.

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