Kervin
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 14 babies a year in the US.
Kervin by the numbers
Kervin was given to 14 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 46 babies in 1989, making it a 1980s name.
What we can tell you about Kervin
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 Kervin. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Kevinhandsome at birth3,813 in the US (2017)
- Kelvinnarrow water; from River Kelvin in Scotland325 in the US (2017)
- Kerwinsmall dark one; a form of Kervin14 in the US (2017)
- Korvinraven; a form of Corvin8 in the US (2017)
- Keevin6 in the US (2017)
- Korbinraven; variant spelling of Corbin461 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Kervin
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