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Kerwin

#13,021 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Kerwin has been given to 2,470 babies in the U.S. since 1913. In 2025 it ranked #13,021 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1959, with 89 recorded.

Babies named Kerwin, 2025

1 in 663,000

Kerwin over time, 1880–2025

Boys
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kerwin: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kerwin means

Kerwin is a given name.

The naming story behind Kerwin

Wikidata records Kerwin as a given name. The entity identifier is Q21021634, 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, 2,470 boys were recorded with the name Kerwin between 1913 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 89 in 1959; its best national rank was #809 in 1959.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,163 in 2020 to #13,021 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,786 in 2015 to #13,021 in 2025.

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 Kerwin?

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
#13,021
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kerwin 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kerwin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kerwins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kerwin was born before 1969 — so the typical Kerwin is around 56 today.

Median birth year
1969
About 56 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
22.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,169
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Choose a decade

1960s — 22.6% of all recorded uses (559).

Is Kerwin 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
−5,966
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,858
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,235
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.6%
Peak was 1959 (89)
Years since peak
66
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#809
1959

Spellings of Kerwin

Kerwin is not the most common spelling — Kevin is, with 69.9% against Kerwin's 0.15%.

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 Kerwin is used

Across 1910–2025, Kerwin was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 201,716 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 50,000
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 50,000
  3. 3Michigan1 in 100,000
  4. 4New York1 in 100,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 100,000
  6. 6California1 in —
  7. 7Illinois1 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. Kerwin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kerwin around the world

Where Kerwin 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
    1987–2020
    #6,177
    in 2020
  • Canada
    1993–2021
    #2,989
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1960–2007
    #680
    in 2007

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Kerwin

People whose public names include Kerwin, 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.

Kerwin by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,021
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,858
Best rank ever
#809
1959
Peak year
1959
89 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,470
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Kerwin

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

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Names with a curve like Kerwin

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

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Sibling names for Kerwin

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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