Meaning not yet researched.
Kalvin: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 109 in 2025. Its best rank was #907 in 1988.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #907 in 1988; #1,567 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kalvin in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,567 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1988, at #907.
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Kalvin: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 109 boys in 2025. Peak: #907 in 1988 · most boys in one year: 177 (2017).
In 2025, 109 US boys were named Kalvin, making it the 1,567th most common boys’ name of the year, up 219 places from #1,786 in 2024. That is 17 more than the 92 boys named Kalvin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #907, reached in 1988. The most boys given the name in a single year was 177, in 2017. For comparison, it was #1,136 in 2015 and #1,850 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kalvin in 84 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1933 with 5 babies. In all, 6,726 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,469 babies named Kalvin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,345 US boys were named Kalvin; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 177. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,670 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kalvin ranked highest in Illinois in 2025, at #974 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Calvin (222,287 babies since 1880) and Kelvin (51,855 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Kalvin in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 8 | #974 | #937 |
| Arizona | 5 | #979 | #955 |
| California | 15 | #1,274 | #946 |
| New York | 7 | #1,494 | — |
| Florida | 6 | #1,735 | #1,062 |
| Texas | 8 | #1,995 | #1,411 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 109 | #1,567 |
| 2024 | — | — | 92 | #1,786 |
| 2023 | — | — | 89 | #1,811 |
| 2022 | — | — | 133 | #1,401 |
| 2021 | — | — | 125 | #1,446 |
| 2020 | — | — | 139 | #1,303 |
| 2019 | — | — | 156 | #1,221 |
| 2018 | — | — | 165 | #1,162 |
| 2017 | — | — | 177 | #1,101 |
| 2016 | — | — | 160 | #1,189 |
| 2015 | — | — | 167 | #1,136 |
| 2014 | — | — | 118 | #1,426 |
| 2013 | — | — | 143 | #1,240 |
| 2012 | — | — | 126 | #1,352 |
| 2011 | — | — | 129 | #1,322 |
| 2010 | — | — | 128 | #1,336 |
| 2009 | — | — | 152 | #1,186 |
| 2008 | — | — | 154 | #1,168 |
| 2007 | — | — | 158 | #1,137 |
| 2006 | — | — | 133 | #1,260 |
| 2005 | — | — | 127 | #1,249 |
| 2004 | — | — | 117 | #1,285 |
| 2003 | — | — | 109 | #1,292 |
| 2002 | — | — | 137 | #1,088 |
| 2001 | — | — | 116 | #1,180 |
| 2000 | — | — | 118 | #1,170 |
| 1999 | — | — | 126 | #1,075 |
| 1998 | — | — | 135 | #1,011 |
| 1997 | — | — | 137 | #964 |
| 1996 | — | — | 123 | #1,014 |
| 1995 | — | — | 110 | #1,077 |
| 1994 | — | — | 107 | #1,083 |
| 1993 | — | — | 120 | #995 |
| 1992 | — | — | 103 | #1,086 |
| 1991 | — | — | 106 | #1,049 |
| 1990 | — | — | 121 | #942 |
| 1989 | — | — | 107 | #988 |
| 1988 | — | — | 111 | #907 |
| 1987 | — | — | 94 | #979 |
| 1986 | — | — | 86 | #998 |
| 1985 | — | — | 75 | #1,071 |
| 1984 | — | — | 63 | #1,150 |
| 1983 | — | — | 65 | #1,113 |
| 1982 | — | — | 58 | #1,223 |
| 1981 | — | — | 61 | #1,181 |
| 1980 | — | — | 53 | #1,279 |
| 1979 | — | — | 57 | #1,215 |
| 1978 | — | — | 35 | #1,609 |
| 1977 | — | — | 43 | #1,399 |
| 1976 | — | — | 49 | #1,247 |
| 1975 | — | — | 44 | #1,312 |
| 1974 | — | — | 37 | #1,428 |
| 1973 | — | — | 36 | #1,418 |
| 1972 | — | — | 41 | #1,317 |
| 1971 | — | — | 50 | #1,162 |
| 1970 | — | — | 45 | #1,245 |
| 1969 | — | — | 56 | #1,036 |
| 1968 | — | — | 53 | #1,022 |
| 1967 | — | — | 51 | #1,025 |
| 1966 | — | — | 45 | #1,108 |
| 1965 | — | — | 42 | #1,176 |
| 1964 | — | — | 48 | #1,104 |
| 1963 | — | — | 55 | #1,022 |
| 1962 | — | — | 49 | #1,098 |
| 1961 | — | — | 70 | #912 |
| 1960 | — | — | 56 | #1,026 |
| 1959 | — | — | 55 | #1,040 |
| 1958 | — | — | 42 | #1,197 |
| 1957 | — | — | 41 | #1,229 |
| 1956 | — | — | 29 | #1,464 |
| 1955 | — | — | 22 | #1,663 |
| 1954 | — | — | 28 | #1,449 |
| 1953 | — | — | 16 | #2,000 |
| 1952 | — | — | 19 | #1,779 |
| 1951 | — | — | 6 | #3,550 |
| 1950 | — | — | 17 | #1,850 |
| 1949 | — | — | 8 | #2,906 |
| 1948 | — | — | 10 | #2,525 |
| 1947 | — | — | 6 | #3,553 |
| 1946 | — | — | 6 | #3,356 |
| 1943 | — | — | 6 | #3,391 |
| 1942 | — | — | 5 | #3,833 |
| 1936 | — | — | 5 | #3,821 |
| 1933 | — | — | 5 | #3,922 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).