Selvin
Selvin was given to 44 boys in 2025, #2,871 among boys’ names; 1,548 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,410 Americans named Selvin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 7 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Selvin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Selvin?
#2,871 among boys’ names, 2025
Selvin fell from #2,799 in 2015 to #2,871 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 22.4 to 25.8 per million.
65 babies in 2021, the peak
Selvin peaked in 2021, when 65 boys were given it, #2,189 among boys’ names. The 44 births of 2025 are 68% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44 | #2,871 | 25.8 |
| 2024 | 56 | #2,470 | 32.5 |
| 2023 | 50 | #2,649 | 29.2 |
| 2022 | 53 | #2,586 | 30.4 |
| 2021 | 65 | #2,189 | 37.2 |
| 2020 | 41 | #2,915 | 23.8 |
| 2019 | 53 | #2,518 | 29.5 |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,157 | 20.4 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,113 | 20.5 |
| 2016 | 30 | #3,665 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 43 | #2,799 | 22.4 |
| 2014 | 32 | #3,446 | 16.7 |
| 2013 | 28 | #3,731 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 48 | #2,590 | 25.3 |
| 2011 | 41 | #2,893 | 21.6 |
| 2010 | 36 | #3,172 | 18.8 |
| 2009 | 45 | #2,741 | 22.7 |
| 2008 | 38 | #3,091 | 18.6 |
| 2007 | 58 | #2,276 | 27.9 |
| 2006 | 52 | #2,390 | 25.3 |
| 2005 | 50 | #2,351 | 25.0 |
| 2004 | 50 | #2,299 | 25.2 |
| 2003 | 36 | #2,767 | 18.2 |
| 2002 | 39 | #2,542 | 20.1 |
| 2001 | 29 | #3,125 | 14.9 |
| 2000 | 31 | #2,904 | 15.8 |
| 1999 | 28 | #3,013 | 14.6 |
| 1998 | 17 | #4,164 | 8.9 |
| 1997 | 24 | #3,134 | 12.7 |
| 1996 | 28 | #2,728 | 14.8 |
| 1995 | 14 | #4,462 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,740 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 21 | #3,226 | 10.7 |
| 1992 | 15 | #4,061 | 7.5 |
| 1991 | 16 | #3,782 | 7.9 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,928 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 8 | #6,112 | 4.0 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,798 | 3.2 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,588 | 3.3 |
| 1984 | 5 | #7,139 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 5 | #7,185 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,394 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 5 | #7,112 | 2.8 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,723 | 3.7 |
| 1975 | 5 | #6,185 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,613 | 3.1 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,825 | 3.4 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,885 | 3.4 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,348 | 2.7 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,556 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 15 | #2,191 | 7.0 |
| 1959 | 9 | #3,009 | 4.2 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,873 | 2.8 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,470 | 2.3 |
| 1952 | 8 | #3,065 | 4.1 |
| 1951 | 5 | #4,175 | 2.7 |
| 1945 | 6 | #3,279 | 4.5 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,957 | 4.5 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,079 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,210 | 4.8 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,429 | 10.9 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,508 | 6.5 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,040 | 8.1 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,703 | 4.4 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,735 | 4.5 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,360 | 7.2 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,220 | 7.9 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,134 | 8.2 |
| 1921 | 7 | #3,814 | 6.4 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,705 | 5.1 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,766 | 7.1 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,683 | 7.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Selvin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Selvin has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 72 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Selvin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Selvin, and how old are they?
1,410 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 1,548 Americans ever recorded as Selvin. The median Selvin alive today is 17 years old; half are between 7 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 4,402 people named Selvin (44 women and girls, 4,358 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,126 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.9 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 5 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 39 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 33 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 148 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 612 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 566 |
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 Selvin born?
The states with the most babies named Selvin are Texas, California and New York, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 9 | #1,887 | 0.8× |
| California | 7 | #2,178 | 1.1× |
| New York | 5 | #1,998 | 0.5× |
Where Selvin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Selvin is most over-represented in California: since 1914 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 Selvin 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,641 babies since 1880, Selvin is the most given (94% of them). In 2025 it was given to 44 of their 44 babies (100%), 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 Selvin
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 Selvin and names like it
- Compare Selvin and SlevinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSelvin peaked in 2021.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Selvin since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Selvin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Selvin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.