Nelvin
#10,367 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nelvin has been given to 404 babies in the U.S. since 1919. In 2025 it ranked #10,367 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1927, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Nelvin, 2025
1 in 474,000
Nelvin 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Nelvin?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 244,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #10,367
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nelvin 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nelvin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nelvins were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nelvin was born before 1981 — so the typical Nelvin is around 44 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 15.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 38.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 286
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 15.2% of all recorded uses (60).
Is Nelvin 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
- +228
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,843
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 63.6%
- Peak was 1927 (11)
- Years since peak
- 98
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 15.0% average annual change
Spellings of Nelvin
Nelvin is not the most common spelling — Kevin is, with 52.4% against Nelvin's 0.02%.
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.
Nelvin around the world
Where Nelvin 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.
- France1998–2019#6,443in 2019
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Nelvin by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Nelvin
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nelvin
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.