Nevin
Nevin was given to 27 boys in 2025, #4,012 among boys’ names; 6,471 Americans have been recorded with it since 1888 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,880 Americans named Nevin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (75% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 18 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nevin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nevin mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Nevin is “a male given name.” Its etymology gives the sense “saint” (naomh).
A rare Anglicization of Irish Naomhán, a diminutive of naomh (“saint”).
/ˈnɛv.ɪn/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nevin?
#4,012 among boys’ names, 2025
Nevin fell from #2,100 in 2015 to #4,012 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 35.0 to 15.8 per million.
146 babies in 2007, the peak
Nevin peaked in 2007, when 146 babies were given it (140 boys, #1,261 among boys’ names). The 27 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #4,012 | 15.8 |
| 2024 | 36 | #3,316 | 20.9 |
| 2023 | 42 | #2,986 | 24.6 |
| 2022 | 41 | #3,038 | 23.5 |
| 2021 | 46 | #2,763 | 26.3 |
| 2020 | 60 | #2,280 | 34.8 |
| 2019 | 45 | #2,791 | 25.1 |
| 2018 | 76 | #1,952 | 41.8 |
| 2017 | 60 | #2,230 | 32.4 |
| 2016 | 60 | #2,249 | 31.6 |
Every recorded year (125)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 67 | #2,100 | 35.0 |
| 2014 | 81 | #1,839 | 42.2 |
| 2013 | 94 | #1,630 | 49.7 |
| 2012 | 105 | #1,531 | 55.4 |
| 2011 | 94 | #1,630 | 49.5 |
| 2010 | 122 | #1,380 | 63.6 |
| 2009 | 123 | #1,386 | 62.0 |
| 2008 | 123 | #1,387 | 60.3 |
| 2007 | 140 | #1,261 | 67.5 |
| 2006 | 134 | #1,252 | 65.2 |
| 2005 | 126 | #1,254 | 63.1 |
| 2004 | 132 | #1,180 | 66.5 |
| 2003 | 97 | #1,386 | 49.1 |
| 2002 | 109 | #1,248 | 56.1 |
| 2001 | 136 | #1,065 | 70.0 |
| 2000 | 104 | #1,261 | 53.0 |
| 1999 | 100 | #1,244 | 52.1 |
| 1998 | 98 | #1,240 | 51.3 |
| 1997 | 97 | #1,218 | 51.5 |
| 1996 | 92 | #1,221 | 48.6 |
| 1995 | 89 | #1,232 | 46.8 |
| 1994 | 118 | #1,020 | 61.1 |
| 1993 | 119 | #1,001 | 60.7 |
| 1992 | 100 | #1,100 | 50.1 |
| 1991 | 100 | #1,085 | 49.5 |
| 1990 | 87 | #1,167 | 42.4 |
| 1989 | 89 | #1,120 | 44.5 |
| 1988 | 69 | #1,231 | 36.0 |
| 1987 | 55 | #1,356 | 29.5 |
| 1986 | 66 | #1,169 | 35.8 |
| 1985 | 41 | #1,583 | 22.2 |
| 1984 | 50 | #1,342 | 27.7 |
| 1983 | 52 | #1,287 | 29.0 |
| 1982 | 54 | #1,271 | 29.8 |
| 1981 | 42 | #1,491 | 23.4 |
| 1980 | 41 | #1,514 | 23.0 |
| 1979 | 47 | #1,363 | 27.3 |
| 1978 | 44 | #1,404 | 26.8 |
| 1977 | 40 | #1,466 | 24.3 |
| 1976 | 29 | #1,771 | 18.5 |
| 1975 | 26 | #1,867 | 16.7 |
| 1974 | 23 | #1,962 | 14.6 |
| 1973 | 39 | #1,343 | 25.0 |
| 1972 | 37 | #1,407 | 22.8 |
| 1971 | 30 | #1,624 | 17.0 |
| 1970 | 40 | #1,328 | 21.5 |
| 1969 | 43 | #1,213 | 24.0 |
| 1968 | 25 | #1,604 | 14.4 |
| 1967 | 28 | #1,467 | 16.1 |
| 1966 | 35 | #1,292 | 19.6 |
| 1965 | 42 | #1,183 | 22.6 |
| 1964 | 26 | #1,562 | 13.0 |
| 1963 | 46 | #1,146 | 22.6 |
| 1962 | 29 | #1,470 | 14.0 |
| 1961 | 32 | #1,426 | 15.1 |
| 1960 | 43 | #1,203 | 20.2 |
| 1959 | 42 | #1,206 | 19.7 |
| 1958 | 33 | #1,361 | 15.5 |
| 1957 | 47 | #1,123 | 21.8 |
| 1956 | 42 | #1,179 | 19.9 |
| 1955 | 35 | #1,289 | 17.0 |
| 1954 | 37 | #1,235 | 18.1 |
| 1953 | 30 | #1,399 | 15.2 |
| 1952 | 37 | #1,221 | 19.0 |
| 1951 | 25 | #1,508 | 13.3 |
| 1950 | 37 | #1,198 | 20.7 |
| 1949 | 36 | #1,196 | 20.3 |
| 1948 | 41 | #1,120 | 23.4 |
| 1947 | 44 | #1,103 | 24.0 |
| 1946 | 26 | #1,401 | 16.0 |
| 1945 | 32 | #1,175 | 23.8 |
| 1944 | 31 | #1,204 | 22.7 |
| 1943 | 35 | #1,167 | 24.5 |
| 1942 | 35 | #1,187 | 25.3 |
| 1941 | 43 | #982 | 35.0 |
| 1940 | 36 | #1,104 | 31.1 |
| 1939 | 37 | #1,065 | 33.4 |
| 1938 | 29 | #1,240 | 26.1 |
| 1937 | 29 | #1,261 | 27.2 |
| 1936 | 42 | #965 | 40.5 |
| 1935 | 38 | #1,055 | 36.5 |
| 1934 | 23 | #1,454 | 22.3 |
| 1933 | 24 | #1,395 | 24.2 |
| 1932 | 32 | #1,212 | 30.6 |
| 1931 | 44 | #1,011 | 42.3 |
| 1930 | 38 | #1,148 | 34.6 |
| 1929 | 41 | #1,086 | 38.1 |
| 1928 | 32 | #1,289 | 28.9 |
| 1927 | 49 | #1,008 | 43.5 |
| 1926 | 54 | #926 | 48.6 |
| 1925 | 37 | #1,180 | 33.2 |
| 1924 | 44 | #1,088 | 38.8 |
| 1923 | 50 | #991 | 45.6 |
| 1922 | 45 | #1,054 | 41.4 |
| 1921 | 28 | #1,437 | 25.4 |
| 1920 | 44 | #1,062 | 41.3 |
| 1919 | 44 | #1,031 | 44.9 |
| 1918 | 46 | #992 | 45.4 |
| 1917 | 35 | #1,147 | 37.8 |
| 1916 | 36 | #1,090 | 40.4 |
| 1915 | 45 | #937 | 53.0 |
| 1914 | 31 | #1,012 | 47.3 |
| 1913 | 17 | #1,301 | 33.2 |
| 1912 | 23 | #960 | 53.5 |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,492 | 31.0 |
| 1910 | 6 | #1,534 | 30.9 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,134 | 48.8 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,319 | 38.9 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,172 | 47.7 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,058 | 52.9 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,166 | 46.8 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,161 | 47.0 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,269 | 39.9 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,189 | 43.2 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,128 | 41.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Nevin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,471 Americans recorded as Nevin, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 27 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 Nevin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nevin, and how old are they?
4,880 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 75% of the 6,471 Americans ever recorded as Nevin. The median Nevin alive today is 28 years old; half are between 18 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 5,210 people named Nevin (512 women and girls, 4,698 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,853 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 119 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 455 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 514 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,180 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,880 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 739 |
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 Nevin born?
The states with the most babies named Nevin are Pennsylvania, California and Ohio, with 73% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 1,696 | not ranked | 5.1× |
| California | 317 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 232 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 203 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 166 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 88 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 84 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Massachusetts | 63 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 42 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 36 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Nevin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nevin is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1910 it was given 5.1 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 Nevin 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 8,496 babies since 1880, Nevin is the most given (76% of them). In 2025 it was given to 27 of their 49 babies (55%), again the most given.
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 Nevin
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 Nevin and names like it
- Compare Nevin and NevanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNevin peaked in 2007.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nevin since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Nevin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nevin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.