Tevis — boys' name

What the Data Says About Tevis

The Social Security Administration has registered 494 babies named Tevis between 1912 and 2017, spanning 106 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Tevis currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 1977, when 22 babies received it in a single year. Tevis is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 64 additional births since 1914.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tevis performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 152 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Tevis shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Louisiana, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Tevis in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tevis in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 494 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.