Calvin

Calvin is the 3,835th most common surname in the United States, shared by 9,020 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 33,100.

By the numbers

People: 9,020
Rank: 3,835th
How common: 1 in 33,100
Per 100,000: 3.0

Where the name comes from

Origin French, Spanish

Latinization of Norman-Picard Cauvin, a nickname for a chauve person.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Calvin described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 49.4%
Black, not Hispanic 39.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Calvin

John Calvin (1509–1564)French Protestant reformer
Melvin Calvin (1911–1997)American biochemist
Henry Calvin (1918–1975)American actor
Mack Calvin (born 1947)American basketball player and coach

People named Calvin with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Calvin

Also a first name

Calvin has been given to 222,287 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1924. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.