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Kevin: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,628 in 2025. Its best rank was #11 in 1963.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #11 in 1963; #221 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kevin in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#221 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1963, at #11.
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Kevin: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,628 boys in 2025. Peak: #11 in 1963 · most boys in one year: 30,613 (1963).
In 2025, 1,628 US boys were named Kevin, making it the 221st most common boys’ name of the year, down 25 places from #196 in 2024. That is 197 fewer than the 1,825 boys named Kevin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #11, reached in 1963. That year also had the most boys given the name: 30,613. For comparison, it was #79 in 2015 and #73 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kevin in 114 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 9 babies. In all, 1,189,844 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 272,549 babies named Kevin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 26,102 US boys were named Kevin; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 4,557. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,049 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kevin ranked highest in Vermont in 2025, at #93 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Keven (8,882 babies since 1880), Kevan (3,531 babies since 1880), Kevyn (2,381 babies since 1880) and Kevon (5,503 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Keyvon, Keevin and Keivon are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Kev.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, English and Irish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Keyvon (691), Keevin (603), Keivon (524), Kiven (307), Keevon (275), Keveon (196), Kyvon (171), Keevan (170), Keyvin (87), Keavon (77), Kivon (76), Keyvan (68), and more.
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.
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 8 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vermont | 6 | #93 | — |
| Maryland | 50 | #117 | #59 |
| Florida | 128 | #173 | #52 |
| Massachusetts | 39 | #175 | #88 |
| Texas | 209 | #178 | #56 |
| Virginia | 51 | #180 | #92 |
| California | 217 | #183 | #44 |
| Georgia | 67 | #184 | #103 |
| District of Columbia | 5 | #190 | #80 |
| Connecticut | 18 | #193 | #96 |
| Louisiana | 27 | #195 | #105 |
| Pennsylvania | 64 | #199 | #96 |
| New York | 98 | #201 | #65 |
| Mississippi | 15 | #210 | #181 |
| New Jersey | 44 | #217 | #56 |
| Rhode Island | 5 | #219 | #66 |
| Iowa | 18 | #226 | #175 |
| Delaware | 5 | #228 | — |
| Ohio | 56 | #231 | #130 |
| Illinois | 51 | #232 | #80 |
| Indiana | 36 | #234 | #97 |
| Alabama | 24 | #235 | #99 |
| North Carolina | 52 | #238 | #79 |
| Hawaii | 5 | #239 | — |
| Idaho | 11 | #241 | #161 |
| Arkansas | 15 | #241 | #113 |
| Kansas | 14 | #268 | #111 |
| Washington | 27 | #277 | #116 |
| Arizona | 29 | #278 | #87 |
| Michigan | 35 | #284 | #127 |
| Colorado | 23 | #286 | #123 |
| Nevada | 11 | #289 | #82 |
| South Carolina | 19 | #294 | #90 |
| Tennessee | 29 | #304 | #109 |
| Kentucky | 16 | #323 | #139 |
| Wisconsin | 17 | #331 | #136 |
| Oklahoma | 14 | #339 | #112 |
| New Mexico | 6 | #340 | #65 |
| Missouri | 17 | #382 | #139 |
| Oregon | 10 | #386 | #98 |
| Utah | 12 | #394 | #196 |
| Minnesota | 14 | #404 | #155 |
| Nebraska | 6 | #406 | #132 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 1,628 | #221 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,509 | 1,825 | #196 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,418 | 1,920 | #188 |
| 2022 | — | — | 2,077 | #182 |
| 2021 | — | — | 2,111 | #183 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,629 | 2,385 | #157 |
| 2019 | — | — | 2,622 | #149 |
| 2018 | — | — | 3,143 | #125 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,166 | 3,834 | #102 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,317 | 4,557 | #90 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,224 | 5,184 | #79 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,289 | 5,902 | #70 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,643 | 5,946 | #72 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,271 | 6,232 | #69 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,999 | 6,568 | #67 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,265 | 7,330 | #59 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,434 | 8,780 | #44 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,449 | 9,798 | #41 |
| 2007 | 23 | #6,001 | 10,537 | #39 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,167 | 10,779 | #37 |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,428 | 10,917 | #33 |
| 2004 | 46 | #3,298 | 11,220 | #34 |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,609 | 11,734 | #32 |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,130 | 12,046 | #33 |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,666 | 12,596 | #32 |
| 2000 | 31 | #4,033 | 12,674 | #32 |
| 1999 | 35 | #3,541 | 12,257 | #34 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,219 | 12,510 | #32 |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,496 | 13,295 | #28 |
| 1996 | 35 | #3,331 | 14,589 | #26 |
| 1995 | 59 | #2,266 | 15,860 | #25 |
| 1994 | 57 | #2,307 | 17,315 | #26 |
| 1993 | 53 | #2,401 | 19,084 | #25 |
| 1992 | 59 | #2,259 | 19,647 | #25 |
| 1991 | 81 | #1,770 | 20,262 | #23 |
| 1990 | 71 | #1,946 | 20,413 | #23 |
| 1989 | 99 | #1,477 | 21,209 | #19 |
| 1988 | 116 | #1,263 | 20,168 | #20 |
| 1987 | 142 | #1,077 | 20,421 | #19 |
| 1986 | 146 | #1,038 | 19,935 | #21 |
| 1985 | 147 | #1,027 | 18,814 | #23 |
| 1984 | 124 | #1,114 | 17,858 | #24 |
| 1983 | 144 | #998 | 17,377 | #25 |
| 1982 | 118 | #1,169 | 17,462 | #25 |
| 1981 | 111 | #1,191 | 17,454 | #25 |
| 1980 | 117 | #1,157 | 17,972 | #23 |
| 1979 | 120 | #1,121 | 18,733 | #19 |
| 1978 | 105 | #1,195 | 20,094 | #15 |
| 1977 | 149 | #933 | 22,463 | #13 |
| 1976 | 113 | #1,081 | 18,474 | #15 |
| 1975 | 106 | #1,102 | 18,066 | #15 |
| 1974 | 127 | #972 | 19,461 | #14 |
| 1973 | 134 | #924 | 20,768 | #14 |
| 1972 | 118 | #1,003 | 22,354 | #13 |
| 1971 | 134 | #954 | 24,850 | #14 |
| 1970 | 128 | #982 | 26,968 | #14 |
| 1969 | 128 | #941 | 23,557 | #16 |
| 1968 | 125 | #929 | 23,862 | #17 |
| 1967 | 117 | #944 | 24,603 | #17 |
| 1966 | 123 | #911 | 25,592 | #17 |
| 1965 | 117 | #946 | 28,177 | #13 |
| 1964 | 114 | #1,004 | 29,357 | #13 |
| 1963 | 121 | #967 | 30,613 | #11 |
| 1962 | 91 | #1,145 | 28,325 | #14 |
| 1961 | 108 | #1,058 | 28,926 | #14 |
| 1960 | 93 | #1,129 | 28,400 | #15 |
| 1959 | 99 | #1,075 | 26,790 | #14 |
| 1958 | 93 | #1,092 | 24,666 | #20 |
| 1957 | 90 | #1,103 | 24,285 | #20 |
| 1956 | 67 | #1,275 | 21,761 | #22 |
| 1955 | 68 | #1,226 | 17,158 | #27 |
| 1954 | 80 | #1,105 | 15,322 | #28 |
| 1953 | 62 | #1,232 | 10,011 | #36 |
| 1952 | 45 | #1,447 | 7,916 | #43 |
| 1951 | 45 | #1,403 | 6,349 | #53 |
| 1950 | 38 | #1,511 | 4,752 | #73 |
| 1949 | 31 | #1,722 | 3,292 | #95 |
| 1948 | 27 | #1,837 | 2,225 | #127 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,830 | 1,549 | #160 |
| 1946 | 16 | #2,431 | 1,035 | #179 |
| 1945 | 14 | #2,396 | 689 | #207 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,892 | 594 | #231 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,019 | 639 | #227 |
| 1942 | — | — | 529 | #250 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,195 | 418 | #280 |
| 1940 | — | — | 298 | #332 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,587 | 273 | #339 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,088 | 245 | #355 |
| 1937 | — | — | 178 | #425 |
| 1936 | — | — | 153 | #455 |
| 1935 | — | — | 175 | #421 |
| 1934 | — | — | 151 | #458 |
| 1933 | — | — | 132 | #489 |
| 1932 | — | — | 122 | #529 |
| 1931 | — | — | 110 | #560 |
| 1930 | — | — | 84 | #683 |
| 1929 | — | — | 75 | #725 |
| 1928 | — | — | 68 | #792 |
| 1927 | — | — | 67 | #816 |
| 1926 | — | — | 46 | #1,027 |
| 1925 | — | — | 61 | #854 |
| 1924 | — | — | 50 | #999 |
| 1923 | — | — | 53 | #943 |
| 1922 | — | — | 71 | #797 |
| 1921 | — | — | 84 | #720 |
| 1920 | — | — | 24 | #1,572 |
| 1919 | — | — | 14 | #2,204 |
| 1918 | — | — | 21 | #1,683 |
| 1917 | — | — | 19 | #1,730 |
| 1916 | — | — | 18 | #1,732 |
| 1915 | — | — | 15 | #1,930 |
| 1914 | — | — | 12 | #1,916 |
| 1913 | — | — | 9 | #2,020 |
| 1912 | — | — | 9 | #1,819 |
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).