Elvin
Elvin reached its high-water mark in 1927 at number 284, and has been recorded 21,166 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,644th. About 10,000 Elvins are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 41.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Elvin boys named Elvin
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 21,166
- Estimated living today
- 10,000
- Median age today
- 41
- Peak year
- 1927
- Best rank
- 284th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,644th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 234 / 20,932
How old the living Elvins are
born that year still alive today
Of the 21,166 babies given the name since 1880, about 10,000 are alive — 49 in every hundred. Roughly 2,200 of them are children and 2,700 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1984 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Variant of Alvin.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Elvins
- Elvin Jones (1927–2004)American jazz drummer
- Elvin Hayes (born 1945)American basketball player
- Elvin Bishop (born 1942)American musician
- Elvin Mammadov (born 1988)football player
- Elvin Beqiri (born 1980)Albanian footballer
- Elvin Mamishzade (born 1991)Azerbaijani boxer
- Elvin Mursaliyev (born 1988)Azerbaijani wrestler
People named Elvin with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Elvin is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Elvin is most concentrated in Louisiana (2.7×), Oklahoma (2.4×), Arkansas (2.3×), Mississippi (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1927
The most popular boys’ names the year Elvin peaked:
Elvin elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sweden boys | Elvin | 2,216 | 75th |
| France boys | Elvin | 620 | 870th |
| England and Wales boys | Elvin | 262 | 987th |
| Switzerland boys | Elvin | 245 | 383rd |
| France girls | Elvin | 205 | 1,556th |
| Belgium girls | Elvin | 41 | 1,179th |
| Belgium boys | Elvin | 27 | 929th |
| England and Wales girls | Elvin | 27 | 4,763rd |
| Norway boys | Elvin | 26 | 279th |
| Ireland boys | Elvin | 6 | 698th |
| Poland boys | Elvin | 6 birth registrations | 582nd |
| Scotland boys | Elvin | 3 | 704th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Elvin: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Elvin | 176 | 0.014% | 356th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Elvin | 63 | 0.014% | 255th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Elvin | 4 | 0.006% | 180th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Elvin | 2 | 0.054% | 9th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Elvin is most concentrated in Vaud, where 0.02% of children were given it – 30 of them.
Elvin: rank by region
In 2017, Elvin was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Elvin | 869 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Elvin by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 6 | 593rd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Elvin among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Elvin | 281 | 349 |
| Finland girls | Elvin | 12 | 14 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Elvin against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.