Ervin

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ervin is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Hungarian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Estepan, Estephan, Estevao, Esteve, Esteven, Estevo, Estiven, Étienne, Magnífico.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines1 in 16K◐
  • CACanada1 in 20K
  • USUnited States1 in 20K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈31K ●

across 13 countries

Sources
389 ●

496K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 804 ◐

Albania

Meaning & origin●

recorded in Spanish

Estepan, Estephan, Estevao, Esteve, Esteven, Estevo, Estiven, Étienne, Magnífico

Sources 1

  • 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Ervin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—16,406427K rec.1 in 20K26KErvin389
PH Philippines—10,5198.6K rec.——Ervin70
GB United Kingdom—9,04217K rec.——Ervin75
HU Hungary—5,488△1 rec.1 in 1.8K5.5K—4
CA Canada—4,2427.7K rec.—1Ervin67
AL Albania—3,826△4 rec.1 in 8043.8K—4
AU Australia—2,9775.3K rec.——Ervin62
DE Germany—2,3452.7K rec.——Ervin97
IT Italy—1,6752.8K rec.——Ervin37
CZ Czechia—1,6540 rec.1 in 6.5K1.7K—2
SI Slovenia—988△24 rec.1 in 2.1K988—15
SG Singapore#6407641.4K rec.——Ervin32

Roughly 16K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 20K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English258K51%
  • Hungarian86K17%
  • Spanish52K10%
  • Albanian18K4%
  • Portuguese9K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English257,68251%
Hungarian86,37217%
Spanish52,17610%
Albanian18,1994%
Portuguese8,9892%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Ervin is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name80K records spelled Ervin3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Nicaragua, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Eřvïn

  • Czech given name21K records spelled Ervin64 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Russia, Ukraine, Croatia

    Languages: Czech, Russian, Croatian

    Also written Эрвин, Ервін, Erwin, Ervín, Ервин

  • Albanian given name19K records spelled Ervin14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, United States, Italy, United Kingdom

    Also written Êrvīñ, Êrvîn, Érvíñ, Êrvîñ, Êrvìñ

  • a separate given name13K records spelled Ervin4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Ecuador, Canada

    Also written Ervín, Ėrvin, Èrvin

  • Indonesian given name9.3K records spelled Ervin6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, United States, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Ervin, Èřvíň, Ervín, Ervīn

  • English given name2.1K records spelled Ervin26 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Netherlands, Philippines

    Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

    Also written Erwin, Ęrwįn, Éřwïn, Êrwin, Ērwįn

61 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Ervin is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Stepan, Stepanek, Stephan, Stephanos, Amigo del mar

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • In kw, turnips

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Turkish, 1. Şeref, saygınlık. 2. Barış. 3. Rüzgâr. 4. Veda.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

02505007501K190019502000859 · 1921

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Ervin in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
188030
188132
188244
188346
188451
188535
188632
188735
188854
188952
189043
189135
189252
189342
189456
189551
189655
189755
189868
189953
190088
190163
190276
190358
190481
1905112
1906101
1907116
190897
1909103
1910131
1911144
1912294
1913347
1914494
1915582
1916692
1917718
1918806
1919803
1920843
1921859
1922791
1923788
1924729
1925737
1926768
1927763
1928672
1929645
1930625
1931569
1932550
1933467
1934537
1935497
1936483
1937422
1938488
1939432
1940416
1941450
1942490
1943484
1944419
1945419
1946421
1947493
1948479
1949454
1950424
1951465
1952430
1953455
1954448
1955423
1956432
1957418
1958377
1959415
1960334
1961328
1962325
1963308
1964255
1965297
1966247
1967231
1968218
1969215
1970206
1971219
1972222
1973175
1974180
1975156
1976145
1977151
1978157
1979165
1980173
1981178
1982164
1983155
1984159
1985132
1986141
1987161
1988195
1989158
1990159
1991164
1992207
1993169
1994137
1995143
1996152
1997144
1998115
1999118
2000128
2001136
2002141
2003174
2004119
2005136
2006140
2007147
2008138
2009133
2010112
2011116
2012110
2013130
2014109
201598
201691
2017116
2018102
2019108
202093
202181
2022102
202386
202482
2025101

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019502000Ervin Nyíregyházi, b. 1903Robert E. Howard, b. 1906Ervin Drake, b. 1919Ervin Laszlo, b. 1932Donald Knuth, b. 1938Ronald McNair, b. 1950Dan Jansen, b. 1965Ervin Johnson, b. 1967Ervin Nagy, b. 1976Ervin Zukanović, b. 1987
  • Ervin Nyíregyházib. 1903HUHungarian-American pianist virtuoso (1903–1987)
  • Robert E. Howardb. 1906USnot in their usual nameAmerican author (1906–1936)
  • Ervin Drakeb. 1919USAmerican songwriter (1919-2015)
  • Ervin Laszlob. 1932HUHungarian musician and philosopher (1932–2026)
  • Donald Knuthb. 1938USnot in their usual nameAmerican computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)
  • Ronald McNairb. 1950USnot in their usual nameAmerican physicist, astronaut (1950-1986)
  • Dan Jansenb. 1965USnot in their usual nameAmerican speed skater
  • Ervin Johnsonb. 1967USAmerican basketball player (born 1967)
  • Ervin Nagyb. 1976HUHungarian actor
  • Ervin Zukanovićb. 1987BABosnia and Herzegovina association football player

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 89 sources across 51 countries.

Official registers attesting Ervin
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201026K#1,377
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200025K#1,321
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202024K#1,430
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202016K#1,802
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)20255.5K#90
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—3.8K#54
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2025988#188
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—976#402
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—758#876
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021671#656
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)2021628—
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—567#13,250

Reference works 6

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 752 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ervin?
We estimate roughly 31 thousand people bear Ervin (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Ervin have the most bearers?
We estimate about 16 thousand people bear Ervin in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled ervin.
Where is Ervin most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ervin is densest in Albania — about 1 in 804 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is Ervin compared with other names?
In Singapore, Ervin is the 640th most common given name of 46,862 given names recorded there.
Is Ervin a male or female name?
Ervin is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Ervin mean?
Recorded meaning: Estepan, Estephan, Estevao, Esteve, Esteven, Estevo, Estiven, Étienne, Magnífico
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ervin” — the 640th most common given name in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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