Keven

Where Keven comes from

Keven hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1930
    First appearance
    #4,001 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1967
    Peak, #595
    160 babies named Keven — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1975
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #925.
  4. 1994
    Keven Alemán born
    Canadian footballer
  5. 1997
    Keven Schlotterbeck born
    German association football player
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Keven Schlotterbeck · German association football player, born 1997
  • Keven Alemán · Canadian footballer, born 1994
  • Keven Mealamu · New Zealand rugby union footballer, born 1979
  • Keven Yu · Taiwanese general, born 1968
  • Keven McDonald · American basketball player, born 1956

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.