In 2025, 13 US boys were named Dalvin, making it the 6,537th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,931 places from #8,468 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 9 boys named Dalvin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #790, reached in 1993. That year also had the most boys given the name: 179. For comparison, it was #4,320 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dalvin in 69 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1921 with 7 babies. In all, 1,645 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 890 babies named Dalvin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 173 US boys were named Dalvin; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 24. In 2025 that was about 1 in 131,390 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Dalvon, Dalvyn and Dalven are summarised on this page.