Eivin
Eivin was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,551 among boys’ names; 362 Americans have been recorded with it since 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Eivin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Eivin mean?
Wiktionary, Norwegian Bokmål section
Eivin is “a male given name from Old Norse, variant of Eivind”
/ˈæɪ.ʋɪn/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Norwegian Bokmål section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Eivin?
#12,551 among boys’ names, 2025
Eivin fell from #2,091 in 2015 to #12,551 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 35.0 to 2.9 per million.
67 babies in 2015, the peak
Eivin peaked in 2015, when 67 boys were given it, #2,091 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,551 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 6 | #11,307 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,025 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 8 | #9,217 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 24 | #4,276 | 13.7 |
| 2020 | 14 | #6,054 | 8.1 |
| 2019 | 22 | #4,519 | 12.3 |
| 2018 | 45 | #2,717 | 24.8 |
| 2017 | 36 | #3,207 | 19.4 |
| 2016 | 53 | #2,417 | 27.9 |
Every recorded year (14)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 67 | #2,091 | 35.0 |
| 2014 | 48 | #2,551 | 25.0 |
| 2013 | 22 | #4,365 | 11.6 |
| 2012 | 5 | #12,807 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Eivin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Eivin has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 14 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Eivin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Eivin, and how old are they?
An estimated 359 Americans named Eivin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 8 and 11. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
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.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 298,184 babies since 1880, Eivin is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 2,567 babies (<1%), the sixth most given that year.
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 Eivin
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 Eivin and names like it
- Compare Eivin and EvanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sEivin peaked in 2015.
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- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Eivin.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Eivin alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.