Behind the Name dot com says this about the name Kevin:
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Irish, French
Pronounced: KEV-in (English)
Anglicized form of the Irish name Caoimhín, derived from the older Irish Coemgen, composed of the Old Irish elements coem "kind, gentle, handsome" and gein "birth". Saint Caoimhín established a monastery in Glendalough, Ireland in the 6th century and is the patron saint of Dublin. It became popular in the English-speaking world outside of Ireland in the 20th century.
Ancestry dot com has some things to say about the Baer name, along with quite a number of veterans:
1. German (Bär): from Middle High German ber ‘bear’, a nickname for someone thought to resemble the animal in some way, a metonymic occupational name for someone who kept a performing bear, or a habitational name for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a bear. In some cases, it may derive from a personal name containing this element.
2. Jewish (Ashkenazic):
3. Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish male personal name Ber, from Yiddish ber ‘bear’.
4. Dutch: from Middle Dutch baer ‘naked’, ‘bare’. Debrabandere suggests it may have been a nickname for someone who wore ragged clothes.
Abeyance (noun)
Pronunciation: [ê-'bey-ênts]
Definition: Suspension, temporary inactivity; also, a lapse in succession between political leaders or a legal condition of non-ownership, when ownership of an estate has not been assigned.
Usage: "Abeyant" is the adjective form of today's word and means "being in abeyance." "Abeyance" is a mass noun with no plural. It is most often used in the phrase "in abeyance," meaning "suspended, held up."
Suggested Usage: A very apropos sentence presents itself for today's word: "King Edward the Confessor's death in 1066 left an abeyance that led to the Norman Invasion—which gave us today's word." The word has a lot of uses in today's business environment, as well, "The executive board meeting was left in abeyance when the police arrested the chairman." You never know these days when this phrase will come in handy.
Etymology: This word comes to us most recently from Anglo-Norman, the language that grew in England after the Norman Invasion of 1066. The Normans brought their legal system with them, along with nobles to run the newly conquered country, and installed their codes into the Anglo-Saxon system. The Old French was abeance "desire" from abaer "to gape at" itself from a- "at" + baer "to gape." "Baer" apparently comes from Vulgar Latin "*badare" but little is known of the origin of this word. In Middle English, the English that evolved from the pairing of Norman French and Anglo-Saxon, baer turned into baee "an opening" and, finally, to "bay" in the same sense.
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