Kervin
Kervin was given to 14 boys in 2025, #6,286 among boys’ names; 1,513 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,370 Americans named Kervin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 24 and 51.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kervin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kervin?
#6,286 among boys’ names, 2025
Kervin fell from #5,880 in 2015 to #6,286 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 7.8 to 8.2 per million.
46 babies in 1989, the peak
Kervin peaked in 1989, when 46 boys were given it, #1,690 among boys’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #6,286 | 8.2 |
| 2024 | 14 | #6,335 | 8.1 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,373 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 10 | #8,051 | 5.7 |
| 2021 | 12 | #6,904 | 6.9 |
| 2020 | 7 | #10,110 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,611 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 12 | #6,933 | 6.6 |
| 2017 | 14 | #6,197 | 7.6 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,544 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (77)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #5,880 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 12 | #6,866 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 11 | #7,320 | 5.8 |
| 2012 | 17 | #5,382 | 9.0 |
| 2011 | 16 | #5,560 | 8.4 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,552 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 19 | #5,027 | 9.6 |
| 2008 | 21 | #4,632 | 10.3 |
| 2007 | 22 | #4,437 | 10.6 |
| 2006 | 20 | #4,604 | 9.7 |
| 2005 | 22 | #4,129 | 11.0 |
| 2004 | 17 | #4,900 | 8.6 |
| 2003 | 20 | #4,199 | 10.1 |
| 2002 | 21 | #3,977 | 10.8 |
| 2001 | 24 | #3,565 | 12.4 |
| 2000 | 19 | #4,139 | 9.7 |
| 1999 | 24 | #3,324 | 12.5 |
| 1998 | 22 | #3,445 | 11.5 |
| 1997 | 21 | #3,400 | 11.1 |
| 1996 | 25 | #2,975 | 13.2 |
| 1995 | 20 | #3,373 | 10.5 |
| 1994 | 38 | #2,145 | 19.7 |
| 1993 | 45 | #1,856 | 22.9 |
| 1992 | 29 | #2,496 | 14.5 |
| 1991 | 27 | #2,573 | 13.4 |
| 1990 | 37 | #2,027 | 18.0 |
| 1989 | 46 | #1,690 | 23.0 |
| 1988 | 37 | #1,828 | 19.3 |
| 1987 | 30 | #2,033 | 16.1 |
| 1986 | 35 | #1,774 | 19.0 |
| 1985 | 22 | #2,391 | 11.9 |
| 1984 | 26 | #2,070 | 14.4 |
| 1983 | 26 | #2,051 | 14.5 |
| 1982 | 26 | #2,086 | 14.3 |
| 1981 | 25 | #2,119 | 14.0 |
| 1980 | 15 | #3,031 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 23 | #2,199 | 13.4 |
| 1978 | 16 | #2,739 | 9.7 |
| 1977 | 15 | #2,848 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 18 | #2,463 | 11.5 |
| 1975 | 21 | #2,170 | 13.4 |
| 1974 | 19 | #2,233 | 12.1 |
| 1973 | 12 | #2,943 | 7.7 |
| 1972 | 23 | #1,896 | 14.2 |
| 1971 | 24 | #1,844 | 13.6 |
| 1970 | 26 | #1,728 | 14.0 |
| 1969 | 27 | #1,585 | 15.1 |
| 1968 | 30 | #1,445 | 17.3 |
| 1967 | 27 | #1,490 | 15.5 |
| 1966 | 16 | #2,009 | 9.0 |
| 1965 | 21 | #1,753 | 11.3 |
| 1964 | 22 | #1,715 | 11.0 |
| 1963 | 30 | #1,442 | 14.8 |
| 1962 | 21 | #1,783 | 10.2 |
| 1961 | 17 | #2,037 | 8.0 |
| 1960 | 16 | #2,077 | 7.5 |
| 1959 | 17 | #2,011 | 8.0 |
| 1958 | 10 | #2,730 | 4.7 |
| 1957 | 14 | #2,232 | 6.5 |
| 1955 | 15 | #2,096 | 7.3 |
| 1954 | 5 | #4,111 | 2.5 |
| 1953 | 18 | #1,869 | 9.1 |
| 1947 | 6 | #3,558 | 3.3 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,804 | 3.5 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,792 | 4.5 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,028 | 6.7 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,221 | 5.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kervin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kervin has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 77 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kervin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kervin, and how old are they?
1,370 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 1,513 Americans ever recorded as Kervin. The median Kervin alive today is 37 years old; half are between 24 and 51.
The 2020 Census counted 1,423 people named Kervin (10 women and girls, 1,413 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,347 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 4 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 140 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 293 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 470 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 313 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 154 |
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 Kervin born?
The states with the most babies named Kervin are New York, Florida and Texas, with 95% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 182 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Florida | 159 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Texas | 24 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| California | 8 | not ranked | 0.0× |
| New Jersey | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Kervin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kervin is most over-represented in Florida: since 1916 it was given 2.5 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 Kervin with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kervin
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 Kervin and names like it
- Compare Kervin and DerronBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sKervin peaked in 1989.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kervin since 1910.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Kervin.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kervin alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.