Mervin

Where Mervin comes from

Variant of Mervyn.
— Wiktionary's entry for Mervin
  • Welsh
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #809 among boys — 6 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1894
    Mervin Joe Kelly born
    American physicist
  3. 1920
    Peak, #377
    249 babies named Mervin — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1945
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #592.
  5. 1990
    Mervin Tran born
    Canadian pair skater
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Welsh.
Namesakes
  • Mervin Tran · Canadian pair skater, born 1990
  • Mervin Joe Kelly · American physicist, 1894–1971
  • Mervin Jackson · American basketball player, 1946–2012
  • Mervin Wyatt-Ras · Dutch politician, first woman President of the Parliament of Aruba, born 1961
  • Mervin Jules · American painter, 1912–1994

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.