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Colvin

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Colvin is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 9 births. Its best rank was 958th, in 1899.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
90.00% of boys
Peak year
200726 births
Best rank
#958in 1899
Since 1899
1,035people given the name
Babies named Colvin, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

1,035 boys have been named Colvin in the United States since 1899, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2007, with 26 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1983, and the 2010s alone account for 17%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Colvin
1890s6
1910s68
1920s128
1930s73
1940s65
1950s91
1960s47
1970s24
1980s56
1990s89
2000s162
2010s174
2020s52

In 2007, its biggest year

Colvin was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2007 were Jacob, Michael, Ethan, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 2007.

Names that rose and fell with Colvin

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.