Calvin
Calvin places #132 across the country in 2025, sitting where it has sat for years. Its high-water mark came in 1924, which makes it a grandparent-generation name enjoying its afterlife.
Calvin’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Calvin, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Calvin since 1880
Calvin peaked in 1924 at #44; #132 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Calvin is most common
By share of a state's recorded boys' names, Calvin runs strongest in Vermont at 0.83% in 2025, then New Hampshire and Maine.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Calvin
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Clara
#63 in 2025 · Latin
Eva
#134 in 2025 · Hebrew
George
#126 in 2025 · Greek
Mary
#125 in 2025 · Hebrew
Elsie
#123 in 2025 · Teutonic
Esther
#119 in 2025 · Persian
June
#150 in 2025
Rose
#114 in 2025 · Latin
Browse: names starting with C · all names
About Calvin
Where does Calvin rank right now?
Calvin places #132 across the country in 2025, sitting where it has sat for years. The chart above draws the whole run since 1880, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What is the recorded meaning of Calvin?
The public-domain references we cite do not record a meaning for Calvin, so this page does not invent one.
Is there a sibling name for Calvin?
The recipe puts Clara first, then George, on shared origin, a peak within fifteen years, matching syllables and a shared first letter. Run the sibling matcher with your own names for a list scored against them.
Get Calvin’s free Name Kit
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