Arvin
Arvin was given to 68 boys in 2025, #2,127 among boys’ names; 5,385 Americans have been recorded with it since 1887 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,350 Americans named Arvin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (62% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 11 and 57.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arvin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Arvin?
#2,127 among boys’ names, 2025
Arvin fell from #1,873 in 2015 to #2,127 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 40.7 to 39.8 per million.
106 babies in 2017, the peak
Arvin peaked in 2017, when 106 boys were given it, #1,542 among boys’ names. The 68 births of 2025 are 64% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 68 | #2,127 | 39.8 |
| 2024 | 71 | #2,099 | 41.2 |
| 2023 | 70 | #2,099 | 40.9 |
| 2022 | 82 | #1,908 | 47.0 |
| 2021 | 73 | #2,027 | 41.7 |
| 2020 | 77 | #1,913 | 44.6 |
| 2019 | 88 | #1,764 | 49.0 |
| 2018 | 89 | #1,734 | 49.0 |
| 2017 | 106 | #1,542 | 57.3 |
| 2016 | 83 | #1,814 | 43.7 |
Every recorded year (122)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 78 | #1,873 | 40.7 |
| 2014 | 61 | #2,205 | 31.8 |
| 2013 | 65 | #2,070 | 34.4 |
| 2012 | 72 | #1,959 | 38.0 |
| 2011 | 64 | #2,078 | 33.7 |
| 2010 | 49 | #2,513 | 25.5 |
| 2009 | 55 | #2,347 | 27.7 |
| 2008 | 48 | #2,588 | 23.5 |
| 2007 | 50 | #2,505 | 24.1 |
| 2006 | 68 | #1,971 | 33.1 |
| 2005 | 56 | #2,160 | 28.0 |
| 2004 | 61 | #1,972 | 30.7 |
| 2003 | 60 | #1,933 | 30.4 |
| 2002 | 33 | #2,814 | 17.0 |
| 2001 | 33 | #2,802 | 17.0 |
| 2000 | 32 | #2,800 | 16.3 |
| 1999 | 41 | #2,228 | 21.4 |
| 1998 | 35 | #2,454 | 18.3 |
| 1997 | 36 | #2,312 | 19.1 |
| 1996 | 36 | #2,252 | 19.0 |
| 1995 | 32 | #2,396 | 16.8 |
| 1994 | 32 | #2,391 | 16.6 |
| 1993 | 24 | #2,867 | 12.2 |
| 1992 | 32 | #2,304 | 16.0 |
| 1991 | 32 | #2,226 | 15.8 |
| 1990 | 24 | #2,697 | 11.7 |
| 1989 | 36 | #1,990 | 18.0 |
| 1988 | 26 | #2,302 | 13.6 |
| 1987 | 24 | #2,336 | 12.9 |
| 1986 | 24 | #2,294 | 13.0 |
| 1985 | 23 | #2,299 | 12.4 |
| 1984 | 19 | #2,535 | 10.5 |
| 1983 | 19 | #2,498 | 10.6 |
| 1982 | 30 | #1,853 | 16.5 |
| 1981 | 17 | #2,685 | 9.5 |
| 1980 | 27 | #2,005 | 15.1 |
| 1979 | 28 | #1,905 | 16.3 |
| 1978 | 29 | #1,799 | 17.7 |
| 1977 | 40 | #1,452 | 24.3 |
| 1976 | 26 | #1,879 | 16.6 |
| 1975 | 35 | #1,506 | 22.4 |
| 1974 | 29 | #1,662 | 18.4 |
| 1973 | 22 | #1,932 | 14.1 |
| 1972 | 22 | #1,932 | 13.6 |
| 1971 | 40 | #1,331 | 22.6 |
| 1970 | 35 | #1,419 | 18.8 |
| 1969 | 31 | #1,441 | 17.3 |
| 1968 | 22 | #1,695 | 12.7 |
| 1967 | 35 | #1,273 | 20.1 |
| 1966 | 24 | #1,582 | 13.5 |
| 1965 | 27 | #1,485 | 14.5 |
| 1964 | 33 | #1,371 | 16.6 |
| 1963 | 29 | #1,457 | 14.3 |
| 1962 | 26 | #1,546 | 12.6 |
| 1961 | 41 | #1,234 | 19.3 |
| 1960 | 27 | #1,554 | 12.7 |
| 1959 | 40 | #1,228 | 18.7 |
| 1958 | 33 | #1,345 | 15.5 |
| 1957 | 44 | #1,165 | 20.4 |
| 1956 | 43 | #1,156 | 20.3 |
| 1955 | 36 | #1,256 | 17.5 |
| 1954 | 58 | #975 | 28.4 |
| 1953 | 60 | #925 | 30.4 |
| 1952 | 34 | #1,269 | 17.5 |
| 1951 | 53 | #964 | 28.1 |
| 1950 | 47 | #1,022 | 26.3 |
| 1949 | 52 | #957 | 29.3 |
| 1948 | 54 | #944 | 30.8 |
| 1947 | 70 | #831 | 38.3 |
| 1946 | 55 | #891 | 33.9 |
| 1945 | 45 | #960 | 33.4 |
| 1944 | 34 | #1,140 | 24.9 |
| 1943 | 59 | #869 | 41.3 |
| 1942 | 56 | #877 | 40.5 |
| 1941 | 58 | #834 | 47.2 |
| 1940 | 59 | #811 | 50.9 |
| 1939 | 81 | #660 | 73.2 |
| 1938 | 57 | #817 | 51.4 |
| 1937 | 83 | #650 | 77.8 |
| 1936 | 69 | #719 | 66.5 |
| 1935 | 78 | #680 | 74.9 |
| 1934 | 63 | #780 | 61.0 |
| 1933 | 62 | #775 | 62.5 |
| 1932 | 51 | #902 | 48.8 |
| 1931 | 63 | #787 | 60.6 |
| 1930 | 60 | #842 | 54.7 |
| 1929 | 64 | #807 | 59.5 |
| 1928 | 54 | #915 | 48.8 |
| 1927 | 55 | #927 | 48.8 |
| 1926 | 50 | #964 | 45.0 |
| 1925 | 42 | #1,076 | 37.6 |
| 1924 | 47 | #1,033 | 41.5 |
| 1923 | 61 | #873 | 55.7 |
| 1922 | 61 | #882 | 56.1 |
| 1921 | 51 | #982 | 46.3 |
| 1920 | 57 | #914 | 53.6 |
| 1919 | 36 | #1,163 | 36.7 |
| 1918 | 42 | #1,038 | 41.4 |
| 1917 | 49 | #909 | 52.9 |
| 1916 | 42 | #986 | 47.2 |
| 1915 | 33 | #1,126 | 38.9 |
| 1914 | 30 | #1,022 | 45.8 |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,369 | 29.3 |
| 1912 | 21 | #1,003 | 48.8 |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,202 | 41.2 |
| 1909 | 10 | #953 | 61.0 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,027 | 51.8 |
| 1907 | 9 | #934 | 61.3 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,153 | 40.8 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,172 | 39.9 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,128 | 40.8 |
| 1887 | 5 | #938 | 49.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Arvin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arvin has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 122 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Arvin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arvin, and how old are they?
3,350 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 62% of the 5,385 Americans ever recorded as Arvin. The median Arvin alive today is 26 years old; half are between 11 and 57.
The 2020 Census counted 4,099 people named Arvin (34 women and girls, 4,065 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,214 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 201 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 533 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 417 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 409 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 781 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,000 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Arvin born?
The states with the most babies named Arvin are California, New York and Texas, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 17 | #1,156 | 1.5× |
| New York | 11 | #1,058 | 0.5× |
| Texas | 6 | #2,310 | 0.5× |
Where Arvin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Arvin is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Arvin with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 5,517 babies since 1880, Arvin is the most given (98% of them). In 2025 it was given to 68 of their 84 babies (81%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Arvin
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Arvin and names like it
- Compare Arvin and ArvonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sArvin peaked in 2017.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arvin since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Arvin.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Arvin alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.