Ervin

At the 2020 census, 24,250 Americans bore the surname Ervin — 1,430th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 12,300.

By the numbers

People: 24,250
Rank: 1,430th
How common: 1 in 12,300
Per 100,000: 8.1

Where the name comes from

English, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic surname, spelling variant of Irvin. Also Americanized from German Erwin.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 56.5%
Black, not Hispanic 34.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Ervin

Anthony Ervin (born 1981)American swimmer
Booker Ervin (1930–1970)American saxophonist
Sam Ervin (1896–1985)United States Senator and jurist

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

Also a first name

Ervin has been given to 39,129 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1921. 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.