Marvyn
Marvyn was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 288 Americans have been recorded with it between 1921 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marvyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marvyn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,847, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 2003, the peak
Marvyn peaked in 2003, when 17 boys were given it, #4,732 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #11,847 | 3.5 |
| 2018 | 5 | #13,430 | 2.8 |
| 2016 | 5 | #13,491 | 2.6 |
| 2015 | 6 | #11,603 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 5 | #13,335 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 6 | #11,742 | 3.2 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,313 | 5.8 |
| 2010 | 7 | #10,362 | 3.6 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,595 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,620 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 12 | #6,926 | 5.8 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,493 | 4.4 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,477 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,347 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 17 | #4,732 | 8.6 |
| 2002 | 6 | #10,204 | 3.1 |
| 2001 | 6 | #10,079 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,873 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,900 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 7 | #8,135 | 3.7 |
| 1997 | 8 | #7,040 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,983 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 9 | #6,227 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,641 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 6 | #8,084 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 7 | #7,003 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 5 | #9,014 | 2.4 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,765 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,954 | 3.1 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,420 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,401 | 2.3 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,854 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 8 | #2,817 | 7.5 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,402 | 5.8 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,009 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,509 | 6.1 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,267 | 6.7 |
| 1930 | 6 | #3,857 | 5.5 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,650 | 4.5 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,737 | 4.4 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,718 | 4.6 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,743 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Marvyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marvyn has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marvyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marvyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 223 Americans named Marvyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (78% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 17 and 30. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 350 people named Marvyn (15 women and girls, 335 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 227 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 Marvyn?
Marvyn is a less common spelling of Marvin: SSA has recorded 288 Marvyn and 255,807 Marvin since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 257,067 babies since 1880, Marvyn is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 390 babies recorded by SSA was a Marvyn (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.
More about Marvyn and names like it
- Compare Marvyn and MarvinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMarvyn peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marvyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Marvyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Marvyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.