Colvin
#12,407 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Colvin has been given to 1,040 babies in the U.S. since 1899. In 2025 it ranked #12,407 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 26 recorded.
Babies named Colvin, 2025
1 in 663,000
Colvin over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Colvin?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #12,407
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Colvin sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Colvin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Colvins were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Colvin was born before 1983 — so the typical Colvin is around 42 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 16.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 36.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 700
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 16.7% of all recorded uses (174).
Is Colvin 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
- −3,959
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,638
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −5,251
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.45×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 19.2%
- Peak was 2007 (26)
- Years since peak
- 18
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 34.4% average annual change
Spellings of Colvin
Colvin is not the most common spelling — Melvin is, with 20.3% against Colvin's 0.09%.
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 Colvin is used
Across 1910–2025, Colvin was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,029,656 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
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. Colvin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Colvin around the world
Where Colvin 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.
- South Australia1961–1991#481in 1991
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Colvin by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Colvin
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Colvin
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.