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Arvin

#2,127 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Arvin has been given to 5,385 babies in the U.S. since 1887. In 2025 it ranked #2,127 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 106 recorded.

Babies named Arvin, 2025

1 in 48,800

Arvin over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Arvin: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Arvin means

Arvin is a given name.

The naming story behind Arvin

Wikidata records Arvin as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q20001507, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,385 boys were recorded with the name Arvin between 1887 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 106 in 2017; its best national rank was #650 in 1937.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,913 in 2020 to #2,127 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,873 in 2015 to #2,127 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Arvin?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 48,800
68 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 25,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,127
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
33,794 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Arvin sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 33,794 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arvin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arvins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arvin was born before 1965 — so the typical Arvin is around 60 today.

Median birth year
1965
About 60 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
14.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
30.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,310
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 14.0% of all recorded uses (755).

Is Arvin rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−28
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−214
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−254
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.87×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
64.2%
Peak was 2017 (106)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#650
1937

Spellings of Arvin

Arvin is not the most common spelling — Kevin is, with 37.3% against Arvin's 0.17%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Arvin is used

Across 2016–2025, Arvin was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 8,333 boys, against 1 in 15,395 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 50,000).

212 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 8,333
  2. 2New York1 in 12,500
  3. 3Virginia1 in 14,286
  4. 4Washington1 in 20,000
  5. 5Ohio1 in 33,333
  6. 6Texas1 in 33,333
  7. 7Illinois1 in 50,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Arvin around the world

Where Arvin ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,226
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2018–2024
    #785
    in 2024
  • France
    1990–2025
    #2,323
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1900–2025
    #334
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #831
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1991–2013
    #276
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Arvin

People whose public names include Arvin, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Arvin by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,127
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 214
Best rank ever
#650
1937
Peak year
2017
106 that year
First recorded
1887
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,385
Count in 2025
68

Names similar to Arvin

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Arvin

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Arvin, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Arvin

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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