Meaning not yet researched.
Nevin: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 27 in 2025. Its best rank was #926 in 1926.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #926 in 1926; #4,013 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nevin in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,013 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1926, at #926.
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Nevin: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 27 boys in 2025. Peak: #926 in 1926 · most boys in one year: 140 (2007).
In 2025, 27 US boys were named Nevin, making it the 4,013th most common boys’ name of the year, down 695 places from #3,318 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 36 boys named Nevin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #926, reached in 1926. The most boys given the name in a single year was 140, in 2007. For comparison, it was #2,100 in 2015 and #1,199 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nevin in 125 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1888 with 5 babies. In all, 6,471 US babies have been given the name, 1.5% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,280 babies named Nevin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 493 US boys were named Nevin; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 76. In 2025 that was about 1 in 63,262 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Nevan (1,189 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Neven, Nivan and Nevaan 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: Neven (443), Nivan (209), Nevaan (178), Nivin (154), Nevyn (152), Neveen (121), Nevaen (96), Nevon (63), Niven (24), Neaven (23), Neevan (19), Nevine (6).
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 Nevin in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 27 | #4,013 |
| 2024 | — | — | 36 | #3,318 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,927 | 42 | #2,987 |
| 2022 | — | — | 41 | #3,040 |
| 2021 | — | — | 46 | #2,764 |
| 2020 | — | — | 60 | #2,281 |
| 2019 | — | — | 45 | #2,792 |
| 2018 | — | — | 76 | #1,953 |
| 2017 | — | — | 60 | #2,231 |
| 2016 | — | — | 60 | #2,249 |
| 2015 | — | — | 67 | #2,100 |
| 2014 | — | — | 81 | #1,839 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,520 | 94 | #1,631 |
| 2012 | — | — | 105 | #1,531 |
| 2011 | — | — | 94 | #1,630 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,063 | 122 | #1,380 |
| 2009 | — | — | 123 | #1,386 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,646 | 123 | #1,387 |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,016 | 140 | #1,261 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,230 | 134 | #1,252 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,891 | 126 | #1,255 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,539 | 132 | #1,182 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,637 | 97 | #1,387 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,365 | 109 | #1,251 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,754 | 136 | #1,067 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,682 | 104 | #1,264 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,929 | 100 | #1,247 |
| 1998 | — | — | 98 | #1,243 |
| 1997 | — | — | 97 | #1,221 |
| 1996 | — | — | 92 | #1,223 |
| 1995 | — | — | 89 | #1,237 |
| 1994 | — | — | 118 | #1,024 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,062 | 119 | #1,005 |
| 1992 | — | — | 100 | #1,104 |
| 1991 | — | — | 100 | #1,091 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,522 | 87 | #1,172 |
| 1989 | — | — | 89 | #1,124 |
| 1988 | — | — | 69 | #1,234 |
| 1987 | — | — | 55 | #1,358 |
| 1986 | — | — | 66 | #1,170 |
| 1985 | — | — | 41 | #1,584 |
| 1984 | — | — | 50 | #1,343 |
| 1983 | — | — | 52 | #1,288 |
| 1982 | — | — | 54 | #1,272 |
| 1981 | — | — | 42 | #1,492 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,592 | 41 | #1,514 |
| 1979 | — | — | 47 | #1,363 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,255 | 44 | #1,404 |
| 1977 | — | — | 40 | #1,466 |
| 1976 | — | — | 29 | #1,772 |
| 1975 | — | — | 26 | #1,868 |
| 1974 | — | — | 23 | #1,962 |
| 1973 | — | — | 39 | #1,343 |
| 1972 | — | — | 37 | #1,407 |
| 1971 | — | — | 30 | #1,625 |
| 1970 | — | — | 40 | #1,329 |
| 1969 | — | — | 43 | #1,213 |
| 1968 | — | — | 25 | #1,605 |
| 1967 | — | — | 28 | #1,468 |
| 1966 | — | — | 35 | #1,293 |
| 1965 | — | — | 42 | #1,183 |
| 1964 | — | — | 26 | #1,563 |
| 1963 | — | — | 46 | #1,147 |
| 1962 | — | — | 29 | #1,471 |
| 1961 | — | — | 32 | #1,427 |
| 1960 | — | — | 43 | #1,204 |
| 1959 | — | — | 42 | #1,207 |
| 1958 | — | — | 33 | #1,362 |
| 1957 | — | — | 47 | #1,124 |
| 1956 | — | — | 42 | #1,180 |
| 1955 | — | — | 35 | #1,290 |
| 1954 | — | — | 37 | #1,236 |
| 1953 | — | — | 30 | #1,400 |
| 1952 | — | — | 37 | #1,222 |
| 1951 | — | — | 25 | #1,509 |
| 1950 | — | — | 37 | #1,199 |
| 1949 | — | — | 36 | #1,197 |
| 1948 | — | — | 41 | #1,121 |
| 1947 | — | — | 44 | #1,104 |
| 1946 | — | — | 26 | #1,402 |
| 1945 | — | — | 32 | #1,176 |
| 1944 | — | — | 31 | #1,204 |
| 1943 | — | — | 35 | #1,167 |
| 1942 | — | — | 35 | #1,187 |
| 1941 | — | — | 43 | #982 |
| 1940 | — | — | 36 | #1,104 |
| 1939 | — | — | 37 | #1,065 |
| 1938 | — | — | 29 | #1,240 |
| 1937 | — | — | 29 | #1,261 |
| 1936 | — | — | 42 | #965 |
| 1935 | — | — | 38 | #1,055 |
| 1934 | — | — | 23 | #1,454 |
| 1933 | — | — | 24 | #1,395 |
| 1932 | — | — | 32 | #1,212 |
| 1931 | — | — | 44 | #1,011 |
| 1930 | — | — | 38 | #1,148 |
| 1929 | — | — | 41 | #1,086 |
| 1928 | — | — | 32 | #1,289 |
| 1927 | — | — | 49 | #1,008 |
| 1926 | — | — | 54 | #926 |
| 1925 | — | — | 37 | #1,180 |
| 1924 | — | — | 44 | #1,088 |
| 1923 | — | — | 50 | #991 |
| 1922 | — | — | 45 | #1,054 |
| 1921 | — | — | 28 | #1,437 |
| 1920 | — | — | 44 | #1,062 |
| 1919 | — | — | 44 | #1,031 |
| 1918 | — | — | 46 | #992 |
| 1917 | — | — | 35 | #1,147 |
| 1916 | — | — | 36 | #1,090 |
| 1915 | — | — | 45 | #937 |
| 1914 | — | — | 31 | #1,012 |
| 1913 | — | — | 17 | #1,301 |
| 1912 | — | — | 23 | #960 |
| 1911 | — | — | 7 | #1,493 |
| 1910 | — | — | 6 | #1,535 |
| 1909 | — | — | 8 | #1,134 |
| 1908 | — | — | 6 | #1,320 |
| 1907 | — | — | 7 | #1,173 |
| 1905 | — | — | 7 | #1,059 |
| 1904 | — | — | 6 | #1,167 |
| 1901 | — | — | 5 | #1,162 |
| 1900 | — | — | 6 | #1,270 |
| 1894 | — | — | 5 | #1,190 |
| 1888 | — | — | 5 | #1,129 |
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).