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Garvin

Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Garvin has been given to 2,424 babies in the U.S. since 1894. 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 1921, with 52 recorded.

Babies named Garvin, 2024

1 in 557,000

Garvin over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Garvin: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Garvin means

Garvin is a given name.

The naming story behind Garvin

Wikidata records Garvin as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q98594585, 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, 2,424 boys were recorded with the name Garvin between 1894 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 52 in 1921; its best national rank was #815 in 1902.

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 Garvin?

Garvin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 287,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Garvin 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Garvin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Garvins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Garvin was born before 1949 — so the typical Garvin is around 76 today.

Median birth year
1949
About 76 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
15.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
10.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,211
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 15.0% of all recorded uses (364).

Is Garvin 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1921 (52)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#815
1902

Spellings of Garvin

Garvin is not the most common spelling — Martin is, with 21.5% against Garvin'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 Garvin is used

Across 1910–2025, Garvin was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 297,624 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in 50,000
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 100,000
  3. 3South Carolina1 in 100,000
  4. 4Alabama1 in —
  5. 5California1 in —
  6. 6Florida1 in —
  7. 7Kentucky1 in —
  8. 8Missouri1 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. Garvin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Garvin around the world

Where Garvin 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.

  • Ireland
    1973–2008
    #698
    in 2008
  • Canada
    2012–2012
    #2,715
    in 2012
  • South Australia
    1989–1989
    #478
    in 1989

Popularity data from Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Garvin

People whose public names include Garvin, 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.

Garvin in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Garvin. Linked forms have their own page here.

Garvan

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Garvin 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
—
Best rank ever
#815
1902
Peak year
1921
52 that year
First recorded
1894
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
2,424
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Garvin

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

GarnerGarnetGarrenGarethGarettGardnerGarnettGarenGaroldGarrickGarionDalvinDarvinGarretSelvinKervinTrevinJavinBrevinDonavinDelvinColvinJayvinGarth

Names with a curve like Garvin

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

LintonFarrisRaoulChesleyCorneliousThurstonAnastacioWymanRexfordFrazierAcieGodfrey

Sibling names for Garvin

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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