Telvin

Last seen for boys in 2024 at #10,938

Peak · boys
1992 · 105 births
Debut · boys
8 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
588
since 1977

Telvin over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Telvin has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201977peak #1,068, 1992boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirths
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2024#10,9386
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2022#8,9908
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2020#8,7398
2019#9,7567
2018#7,61710
2017#9,6967
2016#10,7446
2015#7,49110
2014#9,6427
2013#8,7898
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2011#10,8086
2010#10,7666
2009#8,9858
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2003#8,6437
2002#7,0559
2001#6,9359
2000#6,31610
1999#6,5309
1998#4,41315
1997#4,96012
1996#2,91125
1995#2,25335
1994#1,47165
1993#1,37970
1992#1,068105
1991#1,46760
1990#1,70247
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First appearance
1977

The first year at least five boys were named Telvin! It came in at #4,164, and was given to 8 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1978–1989, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Telvin is popular in 1977

No state had 5 or more boys named Telvin in 1977, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Telvin
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
Rise & fade · boys
15 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1977
  • Peaked 1992 at #1,068 (105 births)
  • Births halved by 1995, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 19,023
  • Highest: 1 in 19,023 boys born in 1992 were named Telvin (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 287,148 boys born in 2024 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1990s
  • 75.3% of all boys named Telvin (443) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s8#4,164 (1977)#4,164
1980s0——
1990s443#1,068 (1992)#2,815
2000s48#6,316 (2000)#8,234
2010s67#7,491 (2015)#9,479
2020s22#8,739 (2020)#9,556

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.

Telvin in 1977

boys
#4,164
8 births · 1 in 205,403 boys

Top boys' names in 1977

  1. #1Michael67,587
  2. #2Jason55,631
  3. #3Christopher46,721
  4. #4David40,515
  5. #5James40,040
  6. #6Robert34,214
  7. #7John34,195
  8. #8Brian32,492
  9. #9Matthew31,965
  10. #10Joseph26,483
  11. #4,164Telvin8
More about 1977

boys

1,643,220 boys got a published name in 1977; 1 in 205,403 of them was named Telvin, which outranked 39.3% of the 6,861 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Telvin
  1. #3,836Wilber9
  2. #3,836Yasin9
  3. #3,836Zacchaeus9
  4. #4,164Telvin8
  5. #4,164Abdiel8
  6. #4,164Abdur8
  7. #4,164Adil8
  8. #4,582Abasi7
  9. #4,582Abdalla7
  10. #4,582Abhay7

Tied with 417 names at #4,164; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1976
Risers
  1. ↑ 5,102Lavar#5,587 → #485
  2. ↑ 4,753Kinte#5,587 → #834
  3. ↑ 969Jedidiah#1,873 → #904
  4. ↑ 811Conor#1,748 → #937
  5. ↑ 704Amin#1,608 → #904
Fallers
  1. ↓ 427Jerimy#963 → #1,390
  2. ↓ 322Demetrios#990 → #1,312
  3. ↓ 246Nakia#790 → #1,036
  4. ↓ 244Baron#977 → #1,221
  5. ↓ 235Hakim#878 → #1,113

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1977 →