Malvin

Where Malvin comes from

Malvin 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. 1886
    First appearance
    #845 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1908
    Malvin Russell Goode born
    American journalist
  3. 1913
    Peak, #734
    40 babies named Malvin — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1927
    Malvin Ruderman born
    American physicist
  5. 1958
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,766.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Malvin Ruderman · American physicist, 1927–2024
  • Malvin Russell Goode · American journalist, 1908–1995
  • Malvin Bokor · Hungarian writer, 1885–1950
  • Malvin Wald · American screenwriter, 1917–2008

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.