Kevyn
Kevyn was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,378 among boys’ names; 2,381 Americans have been recorded with it since 1948 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,290 Americans named Kevyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 18 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kevyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kevyn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kevyn is “a male given name from Irish, of rare usage, variant of Kevin.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kevyn?
#11,378 among boys’ names, 2025
Kevyn fell from #3,938 in 2015 to #11,378 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 14.1 to 3.5 per million.
111 babies in 2007, the peak
Kevyn peaked in 2007, when 111 babies were given it (106 boys, #1,502 among boys’ names). The 6 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 6 | #11,378 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 15 | #6,040 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 12 | #7,109 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 18 | #5,327 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 16 | #5,667 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 11 | #7,270 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 19 | #5,057 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 17 | #5,429 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 27 | #3,929 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 37 | #3,137 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 27 | #3,938 | |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,916 | 51 | #2,476 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,979 | 55 | #2,319 |
| 2012 | under 5 | 42 | #2,848 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 52 | #2,424 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 84 | #1,771 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 73 | #1,948 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 82 | #1,808 | |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,102 | 106 | #1,502 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,654 | 88 | #1,634 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,493 | 73 | #1,792 |
| 2004 | under 5 | 70 | #1,789 | |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,827 | 67 | #1,791 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,934 | 56 | #1,985 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,766 | 70 | #1,667 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,290 | 66 | #1,715 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,914 | 54 | #1,832 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,939 | 60 | #1,709 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,292 | 44 | #2,044 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,657 | 54 | #1,725 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,566 | 34 | #2,319 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,211 | 60 | #1,546 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,434 | 54 | #1,648 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,948 | 48 | #1,756 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,286 | 47 | #1,728 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,104 | 34 | #2,140 |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,978 | 43 | #1,774 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,167 | 22 | #2,647 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,758 | 21 | #2,598 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,810 | 21 | #2,564 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,832 | 12 | #3,701 |
| 1984 | under 5 | 10 | #4,078 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 8 | #4,718 | |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,673 | 18 | #2,649 |
| 1981 | under 5 | 14 | #3,134 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 14 | #3,181 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 10 | #3,949 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 9 | #4,012 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 10 | #3,731 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 7 | #4,690 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 6 | #5,137 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 10 | #3,450 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 14 | #2,599 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 17 | #2,327 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 10 | #3,178 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 15 | #2,260 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 7 | #3,523 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 9 | #2,877 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 7 | #3,411 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 10 | #2,755 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 8 | #3,193 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 13 | #2,314 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 5 | #4,375 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 12 | #2,481 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 12 | #2,478 | |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,535 | 10 | #2,731 |
| 1957 | under 5 | 7 | #3,414 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 9 | #2,881 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 7 | #3,348 | |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,406 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 5 | #4,014 | |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,627 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Kevyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,381 Americans recorded as Kevyn, 10% are girls and 90% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kevyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kevyn, and how old are they?
2,290 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 2,381 Americans ever recorded as Kevyn. The median Kevyn alive today is 25 years old; half are between 18 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 1,992 people named Kevyn (313 women and girls, 1,679 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,240 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 86 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 129 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 611 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,140 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 319 |
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 Kevyn born?
The states with the most babies named Kevyn are California, Texas and Florida, with 79% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 347 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 153 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 66 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 52 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Arizona | 26 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Colorado | 16 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 12 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New Jersey | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Oklahoma | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Kevyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kevyn is most over-represented in California: since 1948 it was given 1.1 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 Kevyn with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,212,537 babies since 1880, Kevyn is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 1,716 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 Kevyn
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 Kevyn and names like it
- Compare Kevyn and KevinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKevyn peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kevyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Kevyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kevyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.