Kelvyn
Kelvyn was last recorded in 2021, when 8 babies were given it; 267 Americans have been recorded with it between 1980 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kelvyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kelvyn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,274, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 2008, the peak
Kelvyn peaked in 2008, when 16 boys were given it, #5,636 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 8 | #9,274 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,153 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,546 | 5.0 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,242 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 7 | #10,255 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 8 | #9,295 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 7 | #10,213 | 3.6 |
| 2013 | 6 | #11,482 | 3.2 |
| 2012 | 7 | #10,279 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 8 | #9,203 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 11 | #7,478 | 5.5 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,636 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 14 | #6,111 | 6.7 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,672 | 7.3 |
| 2005 | 9 | #8,004 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 15 | #5,377 | 7.6 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,316 | 5.7 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,854 | 6.2 |
| 2000 | 9 | #7,120 | 4.6 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,280 | 5.2 |
| 1998 | 13 | #5,034 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 8 | #6,957 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,802 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 9 | #6,179 | 4.7 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,273 | 5.7 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,161 | 3.1 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,967 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,645 | 2.9 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,779 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kelvyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kelvyn has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kelvyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kelvyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 262 Americans named Kelvyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 14 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 383 people named Kelvyn (4 women and girls, 379 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 250 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 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 Kelvyn?
Kelvyn is a less common spelling of Kelvin: SSA has recorded 267 Kelvyn and 51,855 Kelvin since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 52,665 babies since 1880, Kelvyn is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 214 babies recorded by SSA was a Kelvyn (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 Kelvyn
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 Kelvyn and names like it
- Compare Kelvyn and KelvinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKelvyn peaked in 2008.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Kelvyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kelvyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.