Irvin
About 39,997 American babies have been named Irvin since 1880, most of them around 1923. In 2025 it ranked 1,932nd. About 17,000 Irvins are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 37.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Irvin boys named Irvin
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 39,997
- Estimated living today
- 17,000
- Median age today
- 37
- Peak year
- 1923
- Best rank
- 173rd
- Rank in 2025
- 1,932nd
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 75 / 39,922
How old the living Irvins are
born that year still alive today
Of the 39,997 babies given the name since 1880, about 17,000 are alive — 42 in every hundred. Roughly 2,600 of them are children and 4,900 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1988 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.
Notable Irvins
- Irvin Yalom (born 1931)American psychotherapist and writer
- Irvin Kershner (1923–2010)American film director
- Irvin McDowell (1818–1885)American general
- Irvin Cardona (born 1997)Maltese footballer
- Irvin S. Cobb (1876–1944)American writer
- Irvin Willat (1890–1976)film director
People named Irvin with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Irvin is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Irvin is most concentrated in Maryland (3.2×), Louisiana (2.6×), Virginia (2.2×), Pennsylvania (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1923
The most popular boys’ names the year Irvin peaked:
Irvin elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Irvin | 555 | 737th |
| England and Wales boys | Irvin | 24 | 3,688th |
| Scotland boys | Irvin | 6 | 595th |
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.
Related names
Irvin against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.