Ervin

Where Ervin comes from

Ervin hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #305 among boys — 30 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1920
    Peak, #163
    843 babies named Ervin — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1932
    Ervin Laszlo born
    Hungarian musician and philosopher
  4. 1940
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #274.
  5. 1987
    Ervin Zukanović born
    Bosnia and Herzegovina association football player
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Ervin Zukanović · Bosnia and Herzegovina association football player, born 1987
  • Ervin Laszlo · Hungarian musician and philosopher, 1932–2026
  • Ervin Skela · Albanian footballer, born 1976
  • Ervin Zádor · Hungarian water polo player, swimming and water polo coach, 1935–2012
  • Ervin Bulku · Albanian footballer, born 1981

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.