Kevin
Kevin is ranked 196th among boys in 2024 (1,822 births). Its best rank was 11th, in 1963.
- Rank in 2024
- #196down 9 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,8220.11% of boys
- Peak year
- 196330,611 births
- Best rank
- #11in 1963
- Since 1912
- 1,188,207people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,182,874 boys have been named Kevin in the United States since 1912, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1963, with 30,611 births — 1.5% of all boys recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 70 → 196).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1976, and the 1960s alone account for 23%. It has spent 103 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 68 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 5,333 girls have also been given it, 0.45% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Kevin | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 117 | |
| 1920s | 599 | |
| 1930s | 1,624 | |
| 1940s | 11,271 | |
| 1950s | 159,010 | |
| 1960s | 271,401 | |
| 1970s | 212,244 | |
| 1980s | 188,685 | |
| 1990s | 165,223 | |
| 2000s | 111,079 | |
| 2010s | 51,310 | |
| 2020s | 10,311 |
In 1963, its biggest year
Kevin was the 11th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1963 were Michael, John, David, James and Robert. See all of 1963.
Names that rose and fell with Kevin
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Timmothypeak 1960
- Kerbypeak 1961
- Brienpeak 1963
- Kelvinpeak 1961
- Wilfredopeak 1980
- Greggorypeak 1963
- Joeypeak 1962
- Bretpeak 1959
Other spellings in the data
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.