Selvin

#2,833 for boys in 2025, 44 births

Peak · boys
1960 · 15 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,548
since 1914

Selvin over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Selvin has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201914peak #2,121, 1960boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#2,83344
2024#2,44456
2023#2,61450
2022#2,56353
2021#2,17365
2020#2,88641
2019#2,49153
2018#3,10637
2017#3,07138
2016#3,59630
2015#2,76643
2014#3,37132
2013#3,66128
2012#2,55148
2011#2,85241
2010#3,12836
2009#2,70245
2008#3,05738
2007#2,25758
2006#2,37552
2005#2,32550
2004#2,28350
2003#2,72936
2002#2,50439
2001#3,06129
2000#2,86431
1999#2,93928
1998#4,01917
1997#3,06424
1996#2,67928
1995#4,28014
1994#4,53713
1993#3,14121
1992#3,92015
1991#3,63616
1990#4,67311
1989#5,6158
1988—
1987#6,0896
1986#5,9266
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1984#6,3155
1983—
1982#6,3855
1981#4,9617
1980#6,2505
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1977#5,1236
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1975#5,4645
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1972#4,9865
1971#4,3756
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1966#3,5376
1965#3,9305
1964#3,2827
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1960#2,12115
1959#2,8219
1958#3,5596
1957#3,9935
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1952#2,8758
1951#3,7145
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1945#2,9966
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1938#3,5345
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1933#3,6425
1932#3,7765
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1930#2,29312
1929#3,2477
1928#2,8439
1927#4,2105
1926#4,2015
1925#3,1558
1924#3,0239
1923#2,9509
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1921#3,5177
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1919#4,1685
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1915#3,3926
1914#3,2645
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First appearance
1914

The first year at least five boys were named Selvin! It came in at #3,264, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1916–1920, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Selvin is popular in 1914

No state had 5 or more boys named Selvin in 1914, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Selvin
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 389 spots since 2024 (#2,444 → #2,833)
  • 53 spots since 2020 (#2,886 → #2,833)
  • 67 spots since 2015 (#2,766 → #2,833)
Rise & fade · boys
46 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1914
  • Peaked 1960 at #2,121 (15 births)
  • Births halved by 1961, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 26,915
  • Highest: 1 in 26,915 boys born in 2021 were named Selvin (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 38,820 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #2,121 in 1960, was only 1 in 142,155 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 27.6% of all boys named Selvin (428) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s16#3,264 (1914)#3,608
1920s59#2,843 (1928)#3,393
1930s27#2,293 (1930)#3,311
1940s6#2,996 (1945)#2,996
1950s33#2,821 (1959)#3,392
1960s33#2,121 (1960)#3,218
1970s22#4,375 (1971)#4,987
1980s42#4,961 (1981)#5,934
1990s187#2,679 (1996)#3,689
2000s428#2,257 (2007)#2,616
2010s386#2,491 (2019)#3,059
2020s309#2,173 (2021)#2,586

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Selvin in 1914

boys
#3,264
5 births · 1 in 130,952 boys

Top boys' names in 1914

  1. #1John37,947
  2. #2William29,753
  3. #3James26,262
  4. #4Robert21,188
  5. #5Joseph18,829
  6. #6George17,602
  7. #7Charles16,937
  8. #8Edward12,319
  9. #9Frank12,002
  10. #10Walter8,962
  11. #3,264Selvin5
More about 1914

boys

654,762 boys got a published name in 1914; 1 in 130,952 of them was named Selvin, which outranked 13.2% of the 3,759 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Selvin
  1. #2,915Zachariah6
  2. #2,915Zane6
  3. #2,915Zoltan6
  4. #3,264Selvin5
  5. #3,264Abbey5
  6. #3,264Ada5
  7. #3,264Adan5

Tied with 495 names at #3,264; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1913
Risers
  1. ↑ 817Gilmore#1,803 → #986
  2. ↑ 647Santos#1,580 → #933
  3. ↑ 546Lorenza#1,365 → #819
  4. ↑ 534Bobby#1,441 → #907
  5. ↑ 534Gino#1,441 → #907
Fallers
  1. ↓ 918Bernardo#950 → #1,868
  2. ↓ 692Eston#995 → #1,687
  3. ↓ 692Rolf#995 → #1,687
  4. ↓ 613Orson#995 → #1,608
  5. ↓ 458West#930 → #1,388

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1914 →