Kevin

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Primarily a boy's name · 100% boys

Origin: Irish

Meaning

Kevin is the anglicized form of the Irish masculine given name Caoimhín. It is composed of caomh "dear; noble"; Old Irish cóem and -gin. The variant Kevan is anglicised from Caoimheán, an Irish diminutive form. The feminine version of the name is Caoimhe.

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Kevin first appears in the data in 1912 and has been recorded in 113 different years as a boy's name. Its single biggest year was 1963 with 30,611 babies (rank #11 that year). In 2024 it was given to 1,822 boys (rank #196). The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Kevin

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Kevin yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.

1,188,207
Total babies (all years)
113
Years in the data
30,611
Peak in a single year

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
19129#1,819
19139#2,020
191412#1,916
191515#1,930
191618#1,732
191719#1,730
191821#1,683
191914#2,204
192024#1,572
192184#720
192271#797
192353#943
192450#999
192561#854
192646#1,027
192767#816
192868#793
192975#725
193084#683
1931111#558
1932121#533
1933132#489
1934151#458
1935175#421
1936153#455
1937178#425
1938246#354
1939273#339
1940298#332
1941418#280
1942529#250
1943639#227
1944594#231
1945689#207
19461,035#179
19471,549#160
19482,228#127
19493,292#95
19504,751#73
19516,350#53
19527,916#43
195310,011#36
195415,322#28
195517,156#27
195621,763#22
195724,286#20
195824,661#20
195926,794#14
196028,388#15
196128,919#14
196228,331#14
196330,611#11
196429,355#13
196528,183#13
196625,594#17
196724,603#17
196823,862#17
196923,555#16
197026,970#14
197124,850#14
197222,357#13
197320,771#14
197419,464#14
197518,065#15
197618,476#15
197722,461#13
197820,096#15
197918,734#19
198017,976#23
198117,456#25
198217,465#24
198317,378#25
198417,862#24
198518,813#23
198619,935#21
198720,421#19
198820,170#20
198921,209#19
199020,412#23
199120,261#23
199219,646#25
199319,082#25
199417,315#26
199515,858#25
199614,589#26
199713,294#28
199812,509#32
199912,257#34
200012,673#32
200112,595#32
200212,046#33
200311,734#32
200411,220#34
200510,917#33
200610,779#37
200710,537#39
20089,798#41
20098,780#44
20107,328#59
20116,568#67
20126,232#69
20135,945#72
20145,901#70
20155,184#79
20164,554#90
20173,833#102
20183,143#125
20192,622#149
20202,384#157
20212,109#183
20222,077#182
20231,919#187
20241,822#196