Marvin

given name · English · Latin script

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

Marvin is a given name, most frequently recorded in the Philippines. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from Merefinnes/Merefin, an early name probably from an Old English personal name; first attested Ælfwine Merefinnes sune c1060 KCD (Nth).

rarermore common
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 408◐
  • PHPhilippines1 in 1.2K
  • ATAustria1 in 1.5K

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

≈168K ●

across 12 countries

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
477 ●

2.1M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 408 ◐

Costa Rica

Spellings & scripts●

MarvinLatin · English●1.9M records
מרויןHebrew · Hebrew●1.5K records
마빈Hangul · Korean●11 records
ᲛარვინGeorgian · Georgian●8 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled מרוין in IL Israel.

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●

from Merefinnes/Merefin, an early name probably from an Old English personal name; first attested Ælfwine Merefinnes sune c1060 KCD (Nth)

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Where in the world●

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

Where Marvin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines#134135,699114K rec.——Marvin150
US United States#296134,8731.6M rec.1 in 2.5K135KMarvin477
DE Germany#31568,19362K rec.——Marvin218
GB United Kingdom#41962,80266K rec.—listedMarvin170
CA Canada#36233,98334K rec.—1Marvin148
AU Australia#62220,48321K rec.—1Marvin132
CR Costa Rica#17912,480△2 rec.1 in 40812KMarvin4
FR France—12,195△21 rec.1 in 5.6K12K—8
AT Austria#24910,8531.9K rec.—2.8KMarvin88
IT Italy#6089,90411K rec.—listedMarvin67
VE Venezuela—7,5973 rec.——Marvin3
SG Singapore#1365,1565.6K rec.——Marvin66

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

Languages●

  • English1.9M66%
  • Spanish442K16%
  • German102K4%
  • French100K4%
  • 33K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English1,867,73666%
Spanish442,19116%
German101,5664%
French99,9044%
32,7641%

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◐

Marvin is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name637K records spelled Marvin7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, France, Costa Rica

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Măŕvįņ

  • a separate given name38K records spelled Marvin3 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Marvín, Mărvin

  • Indonesian given name20K records spelled Marvin4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Indonesia, United States, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay, Malagasy

    Also written Mãrvîñ

  • Polish given name12K records spelled Marvin31 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Russia, Czechia

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Марвин, Марвина, Марвін, Marvina, Marwin

  • Hindi given name11K records spelled Marvin14 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Hindi, Sinhala, Urdu

    Also written Mervin, Mervyn, Mérvin, মারভিন, Märvìn

  • Hungarian given name6.9K records spelled Marvin8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Hungary, Philippines, Finland

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Märvin, Mãrvīñ, Marvïn, Márvin, Märvîn

  • Thai given name6.0K records spelled Marvin163 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, Philippines, Venezuela, United States

    Languages: Thai, Spanish, English

    Also written Marwin, มาวิน, ม้วน, มาวัน, มารูวัน

  • Greek given name4.1K records spelled Marvin3 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Μαρβιν, Marbin

57 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●

Marvin 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, English name of uncertain origin, often linked to Welsh Mervyn or Old English roots.

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

  • In English, a different form of Mervyn

    as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

  • In Swedish, Marvin är en variant av det medeltida engelska förnamnet Mervyn som senare användes som släktnamn och togs i bruk som förnamn igen på 1800-talet. Det är särskilt vanligt i USA. En fiktiv gestalt med namnet Marvin finns i Douglas Adams roman Liftarens guide till galaxen (1979, senare även som filmer och dataspel).

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In English, lang., India, Pakistan

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, Marwari [Rajasthani]

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

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●

02K4K6K1900195020004.5K · 1928

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Marvin in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
188069
188157
188264
188371
188473
188565
188690
188770
188890
188977
189099
189193
189288
1893102
189492
1895107
189693
1897134
1898127
1899138
1900176
1901145
1902186
1903185
1904203
1905215
1906245
1907304
1908311
1909354
1910413
1911488
1912958
19131,236
19141,627
19152,227
19162,529
19172,517
19182,829
19192,997
19203,244
19213,490
19223,580
19233,810
19244,024
19254,092
19264,111
19274,397
19284,452
19294,389
19304,404
19314,360
19324,187
19334,132
19344,217
19354,278
19363,936
19373,913
19383,900
19393,758
19403,502
19413,626
19423,792
19433,939
19443,569
19453,294
19463,600
19473,773
19483,625
19493,725
19503,493
19513,557
19523,575
19533,564
19543,498
19553,659
19563,483
19573,408
19583,302
19593,167
19603,278
19613,185
19623,133
19632,974
19642,978
19652,969
19662,735
19672,426
19682,255
19692,197
19702,036
19711,931
19721,594
19731,506
19741,486
19751,309
19761,253
19771,172
19781,200
19791,245
19801,224
19811,173
19821,135
19831,172
19841,100
19851,142
19861,138
19871,078
19881,152
19891,192
19901,216
19911,193
19921,175
19931,081
1994978
1995843
1996871
1997858
1998840
1999765
2000815
2001809
2002802
2003870
2004803
2005810
2006897
2007887
2008827
2009711
2010636
2011578
2012581
2013550
2014572
2015522
2016534
2017487
2018482
2019477
2020451
2021450
2022457
2023433
2024409
2025385

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●

190019502000Marvin Miller, b. 1913Marvin Minsky, b. 1927Walter Koenig, b. 1936Marvin Gaye, b. 1939Marvin Hamlisch, b. 1944Marv Wolfman, b. 1946Ted DiBiase, b. 1954Ted DiBiase Jr., b. 1982Marvin Plattenhardt, b. 1992Marvin Ducksch, b. 1994

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 113 sources across 58 countries.

Official registers attesting Marvin
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020135K#420
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—12K#34
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202412K#776
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200010K#3,174
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201010K#3,468
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020209.6K#3,604
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20243.6K#341
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—3.3K#965
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)20242.8K#204
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20221.4K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.4K#6,643
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—1.1K#1,553

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 · 1,086 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Marvin?
We estimate roughly 168 thousand people bear Marvin (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Marvin have the most bearers?
Marvin is most frequently recorded in the Philippines, where it is most often spelled marvin.
Where is Marvin most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Marvin is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 408 people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
How common is Marvin compared with other names?
In the Philippines, Marvin is the 134th most common given name of 462,140 given names recorded there.
Is Marvin a male or female name?
Marvin 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 Marvin mean?
Recorded meaning: from Merefinnes/Merefin, an early name probably from an Old English personal name; first attested Ælfwine Merefinnes sune c1060 KCD (Nth)
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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, “Marvin” — the 134th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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