Brevin

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 11 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
11
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Brevin by the numbers

Brevin was given to 11 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 115 babies in 1998, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Brevin

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Brevin. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Bevinfair woman or bright woman14 in the US (2017)
  • Breninking9 in the US (2017)
  • Brevan7 in the US (2017)
  • Brevyn7 in the US (2017)
  • Breckinspeckled, freckled; from Breccan66 in the US (2017)
  • Breonnoble or high; a form of Brian50 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Brevin

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