Bevin — unisex name
1,037 babies named Bevin in U.S. Social Security records since 1966, with the highest year being 1978. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
32% of everyone ever named Bevin was born in this single decade.
58 babies were named Bevin in 1978 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Bevin
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,037 babies named Bevin between 1966 and 2023, spanning 58 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Bevin currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1978, when 58 babies received it in a single year. Bevin is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 136 additional births since 1950.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Bevin performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 327 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Bevin shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 26 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Bevin in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Bevin in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,037 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Bevin at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Bevin popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1966
- Peak year (1978)
- 58
- Annual births at peak — across 58 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
1,037 total births across 58 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1978 with 58 births in a single year.
Bevin popularity over time — boys
136 total births recorded since 1950 (Bevin as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Bevin accounts for 12% of total recorded use across both genders.
Bevin by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- 327 births that decade — 32% of Bevin's all-time total
Bevin decade highlights
- Peak decade 327 births
- Runner-up 307 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1970s was Bevin's strongest decade
327 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 32% of all-time use.
Bevin by state
Where Bevin concentrates geographically — total births since 1966
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 26 | 2.5% |
| #2 | Texas | | 17 | 1.6% |
| #3 | California | | 15 | 1.4% |
| #4 | Pennsylvania | | 5 | 0.5% |
26 of 1,037 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 4 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- New York 2.5% of nationwide
- Texas 1.6% of nationwide
- California 1.4% of nationwide
- Pennsylvania 0.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 4 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 2.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1966–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.