Selvin
#2,871 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Selvin has been given to 1,548 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #2,871 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 65 recorded.
Babies named Selvin, 2025
1 in 75,300
Selvin 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Selvin?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 75,300
- 44 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 38,800
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #2,871
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 52,226 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Selvin 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 52,226 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Selvin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Selvins were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Selvin was born before 2008 — so the typical Selvin is around 17 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 27.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 70.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,440
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 27.6% of all recorded uses (428).
Is Selvin 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
- −401
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +44
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −72
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.02×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 67.7%
- Peak was 2021 (65)
- Years since peak
- 4
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.6% average annual change
Spellings of Selvin
Selvin is not the most common spelling — Kevin is, with 54.0% against Selvin's 0.07%.
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 Selvin is used
Across 2016–2025, Selvin was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 48,468 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Maryland1 in 16,667
- 2Tennessee1 in 25,000
- 3Texas1 in 25,000
- 4California1 in 50,000
- 5Florida1 in 100,000
- 6Georgia1 in 100,000
- 7North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 8New York1 in 100,000
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.
Selvin by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Selvin
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Selvin
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.