Marvin

Marvin is the 3,604th most common surname in the United States, shared by 9,627 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 31,000.

By the numbers

People: 9,627
Rank: 3,604th
How common: 1 in 31,000
Per 100,000: 3.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Welsh

From probably from mer (“marrow”) + myn (“eminent”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 87.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Black, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Marvin

Lee Marvin (1924–1987)American actor
Hank Marvin (born 1941)English musician; guitarist for the Shadows
Ursula B. Marvin (1921–2018)American geologist, mineralogist and historian of science
Arthur Marvin (1859–1911)American cinematographer

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

Surnames like Marvin

Also a first name

Marvin has been given to 255,807 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1928. 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.