Celvin
Celvin was last recorded in 2017, when 6 babies were given it; 110 Americans have been recorded with it between 1993 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Celvin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Celvin?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,008, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 2003, the peak
Celvin peaked in 2003, when 10 boys were given it, #6,802 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 6 | #11,008 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 10 | #7,578 | 5.2 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,052 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 6 | #10,975 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 9 | #8,410 | 4.5 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,287 | 2.9 |
| 2007 | 5 | #12,668 | 2.4 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,341 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,413 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,048 | 5.0 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 10 | #6,802 | 5.1 |
| 2002 | 5 | #10,926 | 2.6 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,452 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 5 | #10,611 | 2.5 |
| 1998 | 5 | #9,837 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 7 | #6,926 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Celvin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Celvin has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 16 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Celvin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Celvin, and how old are they?
An estimated 108 Americans named Celvin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 16 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 386 people named Celvin (3 women and girls, 383 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 109 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.5 times 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Celvin?
Celvin is a less common spelling of Selvin: SSA has recorded 110 Celvin and 1,548 Selvin since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 54,213 babies since 1880, Celvin is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 258 babies recorded by SSA was a Celvin (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Celvin
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 Celvin and names like it
- Compare Celvin and SelvinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCelvin peaked in 2003.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Celvin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Celvin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.