Meaning not yet researched.
Kelvin: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 214 in 2025. Its best rank was #207 in 1965.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #207 in 1965; #1,036 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kelvin in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,036 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1965, at #207.
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Kelvin: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 214 boys in 2025. Peak: #207 in 1965 · most boys in one year: 1,370 (1961).
In 2025, 214 US boys were named Kelvin, making it the 1,036th most common boys’ name of the year, up 47 places from #1,083 in 2024. That is 13 more than the 201 boys named Kelvin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #207, reached in 1965. The most boys given the name in a single year was 1,370, in 1961. For comparison, it was #652 in 2015 and #576 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kelvin in 105 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 6 babies. In all, 51,855 US babies have been given the name, 0.6% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 11,952 babies named Kelvin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,659 US boys were named Kelvin; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 336. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,982 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kelvin ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #448 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kalvin (6,726 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kelvon, Kelvyn and Kelven are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kelvon (320), Kelvyn (267), Kelven (113), Kelvion (40), Kelvan (6), Kelveon (5).
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 Kelvin 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 35 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 7 | #448 | #277 |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #589 | #427 |
| New Jersey | 12 | #590 | #641 |
| Alabama | 8 | #602 | #468 |
| Maryland | 8 | #607 | #469 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #724 | #760 |
| Indiana | 7 | #812 | #770 |
| Tennessee | 8 | #812 | #788 |
| Texas | 30 | #866 | #829 |
| New York | 16 | #868 | #542 |
| Florida | 16 | #901 | #423 |
| California | 17 | #1,177 | #565 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,182 | #635 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,291 | #486 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,340 | #774 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,393 | #809 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 214 | #1,036 |
| 2024 | — | — | 201 | #1,083 |
| 2023 | — | — | 232 | #967 |
| 2022 | — | — | 254 | #911 |
| 2021 | — | — | 254 | #905 |
| 2020 | — | — | 242 | #922 |
| 2019 | — | — | 317 | #754 |
| 2018 | — | — | 281 | #807 |
| 2017 | — | — | 328 | #729 |
| 2016 | — | — | 336 | #729 |
| 2015 | — | — | 399 | #652 |
| 2014 | — | — | 366 | #688 |
| 2013 | — | — | 412 | #611 |
| 2012 | — | — | 474 | #550 |
| 2011 | — | — | 465 | #547 |
| 2010 | — | — | 497 | #520 |
| 2009 | — | — | 572 | #479 |
| 2008 | — | — | 606 | #460 |
| 2007 | — | — | 623 | #448 |
| 2006 | — | — | 632 | #434 |
| 2005 | — | — | 617 | #433 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,462 | 631 | #412 |
| 2003 | — | — | 644 | #403 |
| 2002 | — | — | 659 | #396 |
| 2001 | — | — | 618 | #404 |
| 2000 | — | — | 657 | #389 |
| 1999 | — | — | 687 | #377 |
| 1998 | — | — | 698 | #367 |
| 1997 | — | — | 598 | #393 |
| 1996 | — | — | 678 | #357 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,114 | 713 | #345 |
| 1994 | — | — | 749 | #330 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,592 | 774 | #327 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,272 | 796 | #320 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,228 | 835 | #309 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,060 | 870 | #288 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,749 | 826 | #295 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,773 | 793 | #291 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,534 | 748 | #287 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,369 | 715 | #291 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,242 | 741 | #279 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,608 | 689 | #296 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,620 | 666 | #297 |
| 1982 | — | — | 726 | #283 |
| 1981 | — | — | 650 | #299 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,165 | 613 | #313 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,960 | 664 | #301 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,058 | 752 | #264 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,357 | 785 | #257 |
| 1976 | — | — | 733 | #265 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,308 | 727 | #266 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,983 | 766 | #254 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,349 | 826 | #244 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,404 | 884 | #242 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,934 | 882 | #252 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,899 | 912 | #254 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,233 | 943 | #239 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,336 | 998 | #226 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,443 | 1,058 | #214 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,157 | 1,079 | #212 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,068 | 1,197 | #207 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,786 | 1,257 | #215 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,075 | 1,333 | #210 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,555 | 1,326 | #210 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,382 | 1,370 | #209 |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,038 | 1,299 | #217 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,156 | 1,017 | #250 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,750 | 770 | #276 |
| 1957 | — | — | 806 | #265 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,416 | 757 | #264 |
| 1955 | — | — | 530 | #321 |
| 1954 | — | — | 441 | #340 |
| 1953 | — | — | 281 | #419 |
| 1952 | — | — | 260 | #435 |
| 1951 | — | — | 181 | #502 |
| 1950 | — | — | 139 | #576 |
| 1949 | — | — | 42 | #1,088 |
| 1948 | — | — | 33 | #1,268 |
| 1947 | — | — | 27 | #1,433 |
| 1946 | — | — | 21 | #1,584 |
| 1945 | — | — | 20 | #1,514 |
| 1944 | — | — | 14 | #1,930 |
| 1943 | — | — | 11 | #2,342 |
| 1942 | — | — | 21 | #1,563 |
| 1941 | — | — | 18 | #1,664 |
| 1940 | — | — | 21 | #1,502 |
| 1939 | — | — | 22 | #1,439 |
| 1938 | — | — | 16 | #1,782 |
| 1937 | — | — | 13 | #2,045 |
| 1936 | — | — | 37 | #1,060 |
| 1935 | — | — | 34 | #1,134 |
| 1934 | — | — | 23 | #1,446 |
| 1933 | — | — | 5 | #3,924 |
| 1932 | — | — | 9 | #2,741 |
| 1931 | — | — | 14 | #2,052 |
| 1930 | — | — | 9 | #2,893 |
| 1929 | — | — | 9 | #2,858 |
| 1928 | — | — | 12 | #2,461 |
| 1927 | — | — | 10 | #2,811 |
| 1926 | — | — | 5 | #4,529 |
| 1925 | — | — | 10 | #2,850 |
| 1924 | — | — | 10 | #2,929 |
| 1921 | — | — | 5 | #4,675 |
| 1915 | — | — | 5 | #4,115 |
| 1912 | — | — | 6 | #2,425 |
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).