Kalvin
#1,564 for boys in 2025, 109 births
- Peak · boys
- 1988 · 111 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 6,726since 1933
Kalvin over time
Rank among boys' names. Kalvin has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,564 | 109 |
| 2024 | #1,776 | 92 |
| 2023 | #1,803 | 89 |
| 2022 | #1,393 | 133 |
| 2021 | #1,442 | 125 |
| 2020 | #1,297 | 139 |
| 2019 | #1,218 | 156 |
| 2018 | #1,160 | 165 |
| 2017 | #1,100 | 177 |
| 2016 | #1,183 | 160 |
| 2015 | #1,134 | 167 |
| 2014 | #1,422 | 118 |
| 2013 | #1,238 | 143 |
| 2012 | #1,346 | 126 |
| 2011 | #1,319 | 129 |
| 2010 | #1,331 | 128 |
| 2009 | #1,186 | 152 |
| 2008 | #1,168 | 154 |
| 2007 | #1,132 | 158 |
| 2006 | #1,255 | 133 |
| 2005 | #1,245 | 127 |
| 2004 | #1,280 | 117 |
| 2003 | #1,291 | 109 |
| 2002 | #1,087 | 137 |
| 2001 | #1,178 | 116 |
| 2000 | #1,165 | 118 |
| 1999 | #1,073 | 126 |
| 1998 | #1,008 | 135 |
| 1997 | #962 | 137 |
| 1996 | #1,011 | 123 |
| 1995 | #1,069 | 110 |
| 1994 | #1,078 | 107 |
| 1993 | #992 | 120 |
| 1992 | #1,084 | 103 |
| 1991 | #1,046 | 106 |
| 1990 | #937 | 121 |
| 1989 | #985 | 107 |
| 1988 | #907 | 111 |
| 1987 | #974 | 94 |
| 1986 | #995 | 86 |
| 1985 | #1,066 | 75 |
| 1984 | #1,144 | 63 |
| 1983 | #1,107 | 65 |
| 1982 | #1,217 | 58 |
| 1981 | #1,177 | 61 |
| 1980 | #1,272 | 53 |
| 1979 | #1,206 | 57 |
| 1978 | #1,596 | 35 |
| 1977 | #1,390 | 43 |
| 1976 | #1,238 | 49 |
| 1975 | #1,304 | 44 |
| 1974 | #1,409 | 37 |
| 1973 | #1,400 | 36 |
| 1972 | #1,307 | 41 |
| 1971 | #1,157 | 50 |
| 1970 | #1,238 | 45 |
| 1969 | #1,027 | 56 |
| 1968 | #1,017 | 53 |
| 1967 | #1,018 | 51 |
| 1966 | #1,100 | 45 |
| 1965 | #1,163 | 42 |
| 1964 | #1,096 | 48 |
| 1963 | #1,020 | 55 |
| 1962 | #1,091 | 49 |
| 1961 | #912 | 70 |
| 1960 | #1,021 | 56 |
| 1959 | #1,034 | 55 |
| 1958 | #1,186 | 42 |
| 1957 | #1,214 | 41 |
| 1956 | #1,443 | 29 |
| 1955 | #1,646 | 22 |
| 1954 | #1,435 | 28 |
| 1953 | #1,958 | 16 |
| 1952 | #1,749 | 19 |
| 1951 | #3,364 | 6 |
| 1950 | #1,815 | 17 |
| 1949 | #2,802 | 8 |
| 1948 | #2,443 | 10 |
| 1947 | #3,370 | 6 |
| 1946 | #3,173 | 6 |
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| 1943 | #3,231 | 6 |
| 1942 | #3,560 | 5 |
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| 1936 | #3,549 | 5 |
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| 1933 | #3,642 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kalvin! It came in at #3,642, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1933–1942, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Kalvin is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Idaho#394 · 1 in 1,580
- Kentucky#633 · 1 in 4,327
- Washington#706 · 1 in 4,444
- Massachusetts#710 · 1 in 5,764
- Arizona#774 · 1 in 5,771
Best ever in a state: #344 in Mississippi, 1982.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Idaho | #394 | 5 | 1 in 1,580 |
| Kentucky | #633 | 5 | 1 in 4,327 |
| Washington | #706 | 8 | 1 in 4,444 |
| Massachusetts | #710 | 5 | 1 in 5,764 |
| Arizona | #774 | 6 | 1 in 5,771 |
| Pennsylvania | #808 | 9 | 1 in 6,468 |
| Michigan | #873 | 7 | 1 in 6,632 |
| Indiana | #915 | 5 | 1 in 6,890 |
| California | #960 | 23 | 1 in 9,379 |
| New Jersey | #980 | 5 | 1 in 8,171 |
| Illinois | #1,055 | 7 | 1 in 8,847 |
| Florida | #1,077 | 10 | 1 in 9,667 |
| Ohio | #1,202 | 5 | 1 in 11,672 |
| Texas | #1,275 | 13 | 1 in 13,551 |
| New York | #1,430 | 7 | 1 in 13,936 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Kalvin
- 212 spots since 2024 (#1,776 → #1,564)
- 267 spots since 2020 (#1,297 → #1,564)
- 430 spots since 2015 (#1,134 → #1,564)
- Biggest jump: 109 spots in 1961 (#1,021 → #912)
- Biggest drop: 179 spots in 1962 (#912 → #1,091)
- Debuted 1933
- Peaked 1988 at #907 (111 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 1986–1990
- Highest: 1 in 10,457 boys born in 2017 were named Kalvin (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 15,670 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #907 in 1988, was only 1 in 17,246 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 21.8% of all boys named Kalvin (1,469) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1930s | 10 | #3,549 (1936) | #3,596 |
| 1940s | 41 | #2,443 (1948) | #3,097 |
| 1950s | 275 | #1,034 (1959) | #1,684 |
| 1960s | 525 | #912 (1961) | #1,047 |
| 1970s | 437 | #1,157 (1971) | #1,325 |
| 1980s | 773 | #907 (1988) | #1,084 |
| 1990s | 1,188 | #937 (1990) | #1,026 |
| 2000s | 1,321 | #1,087 (2002) | #1,199 |
| 2010s | 1,469 | #1,100 (2017) | #1,245 |
| 2020s | 687 | #1,297 (2020) | #1,546 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kalvin in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 10,457 of them was named Kalvin, which outranked 92.3% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).