Nevyn
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nevyn has been given to 152 babies in the U.S. since 1999. 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 2009, with 16 recorded.
Babies named Nevyn, 2022
1 in 484,000
Nevyn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Nevyn?
Nevyn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2022
- 1 in 484,000
- 7 of 3,385,755 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 249,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2022
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 335,262 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nevyn sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 335,262 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nevyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nevyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nevyn was born before 2009 — so the typical Nevyn is around 16 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 51.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 147
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 51.7% of all recorded uses (76).
Is Nevyn 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
- —
- 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 2009 (16)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.6% average annual change
Spellings of Nevyn
Nevyn is not the most common spelling — Kevin is, with 65.1% against Nevyn'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.
Nevyn around the world
Where Nevyn 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 & Wales2014–2014#4,632in 2014
- Canada2009–2009#2,374in 2009
- South Australia1955–1956#408in 1956
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Nevyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Nevyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nevyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.