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Delvin

#4,575 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Delvin has been given to 5,355 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #4,575 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1978, with 186 recorded.

Babies named Delvin, 2025

1 in 151,000

Delvin over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Delvin: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Delvin means

Delvin is a given name.

The naming story behind Delvin

Wikidata records Delvin as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q106607373, 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, 5,328 boys were recorded with the name Delvin between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 186 in 1978; its best national rank was #612 in 1978.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,667 in 2020 to #4,575 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,710 in 2015 to #4,575 in 2025.

In the United States, 27 girls were recorded with the name Delvin between 1978 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1978; its best national rank was #7,098 in 1978.

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 Delvin?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 151,000
22 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 77,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,575
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Delvin 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Delvin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Delvins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Delvin was born before 1980 — so the typical Delvin is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
15.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
21.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,359
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 15.2% of all recorded uses (809).

Is Delvin 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
−352
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,908
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−865
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.76×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.8%
Peak was 1978 (186)
Years since peak
47
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#612
1978

Spellings of Delvin

Delvin is not the most common spelling — Kevin is, with 50.8% against Delvin's 0.23%.

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 Delvin is used

Across 1910–2025, Delvin was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 73,625 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 14,286
  2. 2Florida1 in 20,000
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 33,333
  4. 4North Dakota1 in 33,333
  5. 5New Mexico1 in 33,333
  6. 6South Carolina1 in 33,333
  7. 7Texas1 in 33,333
  8. 8Alabama1 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. Delvin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Delvin around the world

Where Delvin 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
    2002–2023
    #4,108
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    2011–2011
    #730
    in 2011
  • France
    2023–2023
    #6,996
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2006–2006
    #1,768
    in 2006
  • South Australia
    1974–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, 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 Delvin

People whose public names include Delvin, 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.

Delvin by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,575
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,908
Best rank ever
#612
1978
Peak year
1978
186 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,328
Count in 2025
22

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,098
1978
Peak year
1978
8 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
27
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Delvin

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

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Names with a curve like Delvin

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

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Sibling names for Delvin

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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