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Kevin
Pronounced /ˈkɛvɪn/
Rank in 2024
#196
Born in 2024
1,822
Peak year
1963 · #11
Origin
Irish
Also recorded for girls:5 in 2024 (#16,456)
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 1,822 boys were named Kevin, about 1 in every 941.
- It peaked in 1963 with 30,611 babies, ranked #11.
- It first shows up in the records in 1912.
- 1,182,874 boys have been named Kevin since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Kevin per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- 0.2Silent1928–45
- 8.3Boomers1946–64
- 13.1Gen X1965–80
- 9.8Millennials1981–96
- 5.4Gen Z1997–12
- 1.9Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 573 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Silent: 4,934 babies, 0.24 per 1,000. Boomers: 312,718 babies, 8.33 per 1,000. Gen X: 356,017 babies, 13.08 per 1,000. Millennials: 297,872 babies, 9.79 per 1,000. Gen Z: 169,267 babies, 5.39 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 41,493 babies, 1.91 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Name of a seventh-century Irish saint, from Irish Caoimhghin or Caoimhín, from Old Irish Cóemgen (literally “dear birth/person”). It first became popular outside Ireland in the mid-twentieth century.
- A male given name from Irish.
- Origin
- Irish
- Say it
- /ˈkɛvɪn/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Kevin, CC BY-SA 4.0.