Elvin

Where Elvin comes from

Variant of Alvin.
— Wiktionary's entry for Elvin
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #600 among boys — 10 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1927
    Elvin Jones born
    American jazz drummer
  3. 1927
    Peak, #284
    392 babies named Elvin — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1945
    Elvin Hayes born
    American basketball player
  5. 1945
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #448.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name.
Namesakes
  • Elvin Jones · American jazz drummer, 1927–2004
  • Elvin Hayes · American basketball player, born 1945
  • Elvin Bishop · American musician, born 1942
  • Elvin Mammadov · football player, born 1988
  • Elvin Beqiri · Albanian footballer, born 1980

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.