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Bevis

Boys' name

Transferred from a surname; no fixed literal translation

Bevis has been given to 6 babies in the U.S. since 2014. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2014, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Bevis, 2014

1 in 618,000

Bevis over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bevis: meaning, origin, and history

Transferred from a surname; no fixed literal translation

surname transfer

What Bevis means

Bevis is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Bevis is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Bevis is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Bevis is pronounced /ˈbivɪs/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Bevis between 2014 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2014; its best national rank was #10,871 in 2014.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Bevis?

Bevis had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2014
1 in 618,000
6 of 3,706,812 births
Among boys only
1 in 320,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2014
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
428,229 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bevis 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 2014 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 428,229 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bevis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Beviss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bevis was born before 2014 — so the typical Bevis is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Bevis 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2014 (6)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#10,871
2014

Spellings of Bevis

Bevis is not the most common spelling — Kevin is, with 64.6% against Bevis's <0.01%.

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.

Bevis around the world

Where Bevis 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
    2003–2003
    #3,467
    in 2003
  • South Australia
    1944–1981
    #425
    in 1981

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Bevis by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#10,871
2014
Peak year
2014
6 that year
First recorded
2014
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Bevis

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

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Sibling names for Bevis

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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