Selvin

given name · Spanish · Latin script

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

Selvin is a given name, most frequently recorded in Honduras, where it is the 61st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Probably from an unattested Old English personal name *Sǣlwīġ, composed of the elements sǣl (“happiness, prosperity, opportunity”) and wīġ (“war, battle”).

rarermore common
  • HNHonduras1 in 1.3K◐
  • GTGuatemala1 in 5.4K
  • SVEl Salvador1 in 9K

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

≈4.4K ●

across 4 countries

Sources
159 ●

52K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 31K ◐

Guyana

Meaning & origin●

Probably from an unattested Old English personal name *Sǣlwīġ, composed of the elements sǣl (“happiness, prosperity, opportunity”) and wīġ (“war, battle”).

Sources 2

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Selvin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HN Honduras#6114,54914K rec.——Selvin35
GT Guatemala#1056,6836.6K rec.——Selvin38
US United States—4,35823K rec.1 in 76K4.4KSelvin159
SV El Salvador#5133,0171.9K rec.——Selvin24
IN India—2,0132.1K rec.—39Selvin60
ES Spain—620572 rec.——Selvin23
MX Mexico—460412 rec.——Selvin31
GB United Kingdom—436478 rec.——Selvin35
ZA South Africa—281278 rec.——Selvin15
ID Indonesia—27448 rec.——Selvin41
CA Canada—231278 rec.——Selvin25
AU Australia—203281 rec.——Selvin31

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

Languages●

  • Spanish34K58%
  • English15K26%
  • Turkish2.2K4%
  • Hindi1.6K3%
  • 1.1K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish33,72358%
English15,08426%
Turkish2,2034%
Hindi1,6003%
1,0982%

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◐

Selvin is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Turkish given name2.6K records spelled Selvin4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, India, Syria

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Şelvin

  • a separate given name1.2K records spelled Selvin2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India

    Also written Selvín

  • French given name368 records spelled Selvin3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, Belgium, Spain

    Also written Sëlvïn, Sęlvin

  • Danish given name127 records spelled Selvin6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Denmark, Norway

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian, Norwegian Bokmål

    Also written Selṿin

  • Bulgarian given name107 records spelled Selvin7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, United States

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian

    Also written Селвин

43 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●

Selvin is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Finnish, superlative degree of selvä

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

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●

02040608019201940196019802000202065 · 2021

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Selvin in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1914–2025
Yearrecords
19145
19156
19195
19217
19239
19249
19258
19265
19275
19289
19297
193012
19325
19335
19385
19456
19515
19528
19575
19586
19599
196015
19647
19655
19666
19716
19725
19755
19776
19805
19817
19825
19845
19866
19876
19898
199011
199116
199215
199321
199413
199514
199628
199724
199817
199928
200031
200129
200239
200336
200450
200550
200652
200758
200838
200945
201036
201141
201248
201328
201432
201543
201630
201738
201837
201953
202041
202165
202253
202350
202456
202544

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 72 years between 1914–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Selvin Cárcamo, b. 1949Selvin Pennant, b. 1950Selvin Zelaya, b. 1979Selvin De León, b. 1980Selvin Bonifacio Zepeda, b. 1981Selvin González, b. 1981Selvin Young, b. 1983Selvin Laínez, b. 1983Selvin Castellanos, b. 1988

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 32 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Selvin
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20204.4K#4,306
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020213#92,574
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000198#87,348
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010191#95,545
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—84#8,299
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—46#5,087
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202044#4,306
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202544—
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—43#3,632
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—39#52,019
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—25#21,713
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—25#23,138

Reference works 2

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 · 162 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Selvin?
We estimate roughly 4.4 thousand people bear Selvin (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
In which country does Selvin have the most bearers?
Selvin is most frequently recorded in Honduras, where it is most often spelled selvin.
How common is Selvin compared with other names?
In Honduras, Selvin is the 61st most common given name of 23,431 given names recorded there.
Is Selvin a male or female name?
Selvin 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 Selvin mean?
Recorded meaning: Probably from an unattested Old English personal name *Sǣlwīġ, composed of the elements sǣl (“happiness, prosperity, opportunity”) and wīġ (“war, battle”).
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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, “Selvin” — the 61st most common given name in Honduras. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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