Garvin

Where Garvin comes from

Garvin 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. 1894
    First appearance
    #1,074 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1902
    Peak, #794
    9 babies named Garvin — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1903
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1950
    Garvin Cross born
    Canadian actor
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Garvin Cross · Canadian actor, born 1950

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.