Kevin
Kevin places #221 across the country in 2025, and it is easing off its peak. Its record runs from 1912 through a 1963 peak, 1,184,507 children in all.
What Kevin carries
Kevin · Celtic
“comely”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Kevin’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Kevin, 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.
Kevin since 1912
Kevin peaked in 1963 at #11; #221 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Kevin is most common
Among the states, Kevin takes its largest share in Vermont, 0.5% of the boys' names recorded there in 2025, with Maryland and District of Columbia next.
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 Kevin
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Oscar
#223 in 2025 · Celtic
Rory
#199 in 2025 · Celtic
Ronan
#247 in 2025 · Celtic
Harvey
#251 in 2025 · Celtic
Connor
#166 in 2025 · Celtic
Evan
#153 in 2025 · Celtic
Arthur
#87 in 2025 · Celtic
Owen
#31 in 2025 · Celtic
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About Kevin
Where does Kevin rank right now?
Kevin places #221 across the country in 2025, and it is easing off its peak. The full curve since 1912 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
Does Kevin have a meaning on record?
In our cited reference the recorded gloss is “comely”, of Celtic origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
What names go with Kevin?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Oscar, Rory and Ronan, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
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