Kevin

given name · English · Latin script

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

Kevin is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 37th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: ‘comely birth’; St Kevin, a Leinsterman, founded Glendalough monastery.

rarermore common
  • ECEcuador1 in 203◐
  • IEIreland1 in 251
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 286

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

≈1.4M ●

across 12 countries

#120 ●

of 16M given names

7 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
628 ●

13M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 203 ◐

Ecuador

Spellings & scripts●

KevinLatin · English●11M records
KevinCyrillic · English●1 records
קוויןHebrew · Hebrew●1.5K records
ᲙევინGeorgian · Georgian●19 records
케빈Hangul · Korean●16 records
কেভিনBengali · Bangla●1 records
కవనTelugu · Telugu●0 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

‘comely birth’; St Kevin, a Leinsterman, founded Glendalough monastery.

Sources 1

  • Irish first names

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Kevin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#371,013,4409.4M rec.1 in 3281MKevin628
GB United Kingdom#43721,729579K rec.—37Kevin315
AR Argentina#287453,397220K rec.—157Kevin146
AU Australia#70290,359220K rec.—119Kevin314
CA Canada#30273,315234K rec.—46Kevin298
DE Germany#139184,024171K rec.—listedKevin253
FR France#80152,640591K rec.1 in 444153KKevin410
PH Philippines#117149,22276K rec.——Kevin162
PE Peru#253127,218102K rec.——Kevin90
MX Mexico#314127,08886K rec.——Kevin199
CO Colombia#85126,30057K rec.——Kevin172
EC Ecuador#2883,192△3.9K rec.1 in 20383KKevin79

Roughly 1M people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 328). 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●

  • English11M65%
  • Spanish1.6M9%
  • French1.2M7%
  • Portuguese663K4%
  • German364K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English11,291,51265%
Spanish1,617,2089%
French1,192,0327%
Portuguese663,1744%
German364,0852%

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◐

Kevin is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name286K records spelled Kevin4 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Kévin, Kèvin, Kevín

  • Hungarian given name136K records spelled Kevin5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, Slovenia, United Kingdom

    Also written Kévin, Këvïn, Kévín, Kévîñ

  • Polish given name105K records spelled Kevin72 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, Czechia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Russian

    Also written Кевин, Кевін, Кевина, Kevyn, Кэвин

  • Indonesian given name84K records spelled Kevin18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Philippines, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay, Malagasy

    Also written 'Kevin, Kévin, Kêvîñ, Këvîñ, Kēvįñ

  • Portuguese given name51K records spelled Kevin116 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Laos, Thailand

    Languages: Portuguese, Thai, Lao

    Also written Keven, เควิน, แก้วน, เคว, แกว่น

  • Greek given name21K records spelled Kevin5 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Κεβιν, Kévin, Κέβιν, Keviñ

  • a separate given name13K records spelled Kevin43 spellings in the group

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

    Also written K̶e̶v̶i̶n̶, Kévin, Kęvïn, Këvïn, Kévín

88 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●

Kevin is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, From Irish Caoimhín, meaning 'handsome birth' or 'gentle birth'.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • Of Irish origin: Anglicized form of the Gaelic name Caoimhin, originally a byname representing a diminutive of caomh ‘comely’, ‘beloved’. This was the name of a 7th-century saint who is one of the patrons of Dublin.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • Anglicized form of 6 Caoimhm ‘descent of Caoimhm’ (Kevin), a byname representing a diminutive of Gaelic caomh ‘comely’, ‘beloved’. This was the name of a 7th-cenmry saint who is one of the patrons of Dublin.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In French, a male given name; masculine of Kevine

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

  • In French, Du gaélique Caoimhín, « beau, doux, bien né »; fêté le 3 juin, saint Kevin de Glendalough.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

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●

010K20K30K40K19201940196019802000202031K · 1963

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Kevin in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1912–2025
Yearrecords
19129
19139
191412
191515
191618
191719
191821
191914
192024
192184
192271
192353
192450
192561
192646
192767
192868
192975
193084
1931110
1932122
1933132
1934151
1935175
1936153
1937178
1938245
1939273
1940298
1941418
1942529
1943639
1944594
1945689
19461,035
19471,549
19482,225
19493,292
19504,752
19516,349
19527,916
195310,011
195415,322
195517,158
195621,761
195724,285
195824,666
195926,790
196028,400
196128,926
196228,325
196330,613
196429,357
196528,177
196625,592
196724,603
196823,862
196923,557
197026,968
197124,850
197222,354
197320,768
197419,461
197518,066
197618,474
197722,463
197820,094
197918,733
198017,972
198117,454
198217,462
198317,377
198417,858
198518,814
198619,935
198720,421
198820,168
198921,209
199020,413
199120,262
199219,647
199319,084
199417,315
199515,860
199614,589
199713,295
199812,510
199912,257
200012,674
200112,596
200212,046
200311,734
200411,220
200510,917
200610,779
200710,537
20089,798
20098,780
20107,330
20116,568
20126,232
20135,946
20145,902
20155,184
20164,557
20173,834
20183,143
20192,622
20202,385
20212,111
20222,077
20231,920
20241,825
20251,628

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 114 years between 1912–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Kevin Conroy, b. 1955Kevin McNally, b. 1956Kevin Rudd, b. 1957Kevin Spacey, b. 1959Kevin Carter, b. 1960Kevin James, b. 1965Kevin Jonas, b. 1987Kevin Durant, b. 1988Kevin Love, b. 1988Kevin De Bruyne, b. 1991

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 139 sources across 77 countries.

Official registers attesting Kevin
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201M#24
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024153K#561
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202483K#16
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202257K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—56K#520
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—35K#989
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—17K#392
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—16K#177
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—15K#288
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—15K#303
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—15K#20
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202012K—

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name 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 · 1,809 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Kevin?
We estimate roughly 1.4 million people bear Kevin (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Kevin have the most bearers?
We estimate about 1.0 million people bear Kevin in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled kevin.
Where is Kevin most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kevin is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 203 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is Kevin compared with other names?
In the United States, Kevin is the 37th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
Is Kevin a male or female name?
Kevin 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 Kevin mean?
Recorded meaning: ‘comely birth’; St Kevin, a Leinsterman, founded Glendalough monastery.
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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, “Kevin” — the 37th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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