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Hervin

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Hervin has been given to 53 babies in the U.S. since 1991. 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 2008, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Hervin, 2008

1 in 491,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hervin: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hervin means

Hervin is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Hervin is used in Icelandic.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 53 boys were recorded with the name Hervin between 1991 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2008; its best national rank was #8,012 in 1993.

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 Hervin?

Hervin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2008
1 in 491,000
8 of 3,930,727 births
Among boys only
1 in 255,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2008
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
340,573 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hervin 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 2008 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 340,573 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hervin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hervins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hervin was born before 2004 — so the typical Hervin is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
69.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
53
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 69.8% of all recorded uses (37).

Is Hervin 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 2008 (8)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,012
1993

Spellings of Hervin

Hervin is not the most common spelling — Kevin is, with 51.8% against Hervin'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.

Hervin around the world

Where Hervin 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.

  • France
    1984–2008
    #5,095
    in 2008

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Hervin 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
#8,012
1993
Peak year
2008
8 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2008
All-time count
53
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hervin

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

HerlinAarvinHerberHermenSarvinHervieZayvinHeriKeyvinHerronHerbetHeraldoDhruvinYavinShivinHerleyHerrickHersonHerodHerickOsvinDaevinDervinSylvin

Sibling names for Hervin

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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