Meaning not yet researched.
Selvin: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 44 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,190 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,190 in 2021; #2,872 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Selvin in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,872 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #2,190.
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Selvin: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 44 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,190 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 65 (2021).
In 2025, 44 US boys were named Selvin, making it the 2,872nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 402 places from #2,470 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 56 boys named Selvin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,190, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 65. For comparison, it was #2,800 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Selvin in 72 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 5 babies. In all, 1,548 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 428 babies named Selvin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 467 US boys were named Selvin; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 65. In 2025 that was about 1 in 38,820 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Selvin ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #1,887 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Sylvan (3,813 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Celvin 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: Celvin (110).
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 Selvin 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 9 | #1,887 | #2,678 |
| New York | 5 | #1,998 | — |
| California | 7 | #2,178 | #2,225 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 44 | #2,872 |
| 2024 | — | — | 56 | #2,470 |
| 2023 | — | — | 50 | #2,650 |
| 2022 | — | — | 53 | #2,587 |
| 2021 | — | — | 65 | #2,190 |
| 2020 | — | — | 41 | #2,916 |
| 2019 | — | — | 53 | #2,519 |
| 2018 | — | — | 37 | #3,160 |
| 2017 | — | — | 38 | #3,114 |
| 2016 | — | — | 30 | #3,666 |
| 2015 | — | — | 43 | #2,800 |
| 2014 | — | — | 32 | #3,448 |
| 2013 | — | — | 28 | #3,733 |
| 2012 | — | — | 48 | #2,591 |
| 2011 | — | — | 41 | #2,894 |
| 2010 | — | — | 36 | #3,173 |
| 2009 | — | — | 45 | #2,742 |
| 2008 | — | — | 38 | #3,093 |
| 2007 | — | — | 58 | #2,276 |
| 2006 | — | — | 52 | #2,391 |
| 2005 | — | — | 50 | #2,355 |
| 2004 | — | — | 50 | #2,303 |
| 2003 | — | — | 36 | #2,771 |
| 2002 | — | — | 39 | #2,546 |
| 2001 | — | — | 29 | #3,130 |
| 2000 | — | — | 31 | #2,910 |
| 1999 | — | — | 28 | #3,017 |
| 1998 | — | — | 17 | #4,168 |
| 1997 | — | — | 24 | #3,139 |
| 1996 | — | — | 28 | #2,733 |
| 1995 | — | — | 14 | #4,468 |
| 1994 | — | — | 13 | #4,746 |
| 1993 | — | — | 21 | #3,232 |
| 1992 | — | — | 15 | #4,068 |
| 1991 | — | — | 16 | #3,789 |
| 1990 | — | — | 11 | #4,935 |
| 1989 | — | — | 8 | #6,119 |
| 1987 | — | — | 6 | #6,805 |
| 1986 | — | — | 6 | #6,594 |
| 1984 | — | — | 5 | #7,143 |
| 1982 | — | — | 5 | #7,187 |
| 1981 | — | — | 7 | #5,396 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #7,114 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,725 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #6,187 |
| 1972 | — | — | 5 | #5,615 |
| 1971 | — | — | 6 | #4,827 |
| 1966 | — | — | 6 | #3,886 |
| 1965 | — | — | 5 | #4,349 |
| 1964 | — | — | 7 | #3,557 |
| 1960 | — | — | 15 | #2,192 |
| 1959 | — | — | 9 | #3,010 |
| 1958 | — | — | 6 | #3,874 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,471 |
| 1952 | — | — | 8 | #3,067 |
| 1951 | — | — | 5 | #4,176 |
| 1945 | — | — | 6 | #3,280 |
| 1938 | — | — | 5 | #3,958 |
| 1933 | — | — | 5 | #4,081 |
| 1932 | — | — | 5 | #4,213 |
| 1930 | — | — | 12 | #2,430 |
| 1929 | — | — | 7 | #3,510 |
| 1928 | — | — | 9 | #3,042 |
| 1927 | — | — | 5 | #4,705 |
| 1926 | — | — | 5 | #4,737 |
| 1925 | — | — | 8 | #3,362 |
| 1924 | — | — | 9 | #3,221 |
| 1923 | — | — | 9 | #3,136 |
| 1921 | — | — | 7 | #3,816 |
| 1919 | — | — | 5 | #4,707 |
| 1915 | — | — | 6 | #3,767 |
| 1914 | — | — | 5 | #3,684 |
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).