girls:
1.2k births since 1914
#4508 (21st percentile)
boys:
215.8k births since 1880
#172 (96th percentile)
overall:
217k births since 1880
#363 (95th percentile)
The name Calvin is the #363 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 216,968 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 95.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 95.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #172 (96.3% percentile) for all time with 215,757 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,508 (21.1% percentile) for all time with 1,211 births since 1914.
Calvin has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1914 for girls).
The name Calvin has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Calvin reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 92.2% percentile (ranked #44) with 4,208 births per million. The name was most common in 1924, with 4,208 births per million (ranked 92.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2009, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Calvin ranks #149 for boys (83.7% percentile) with 1,312 births per million, which is 31.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Calvin reached its peak popularity in 1958, achieving the 3.3% percentile (ranked #740) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1926, with 19 births per million (ranked 3.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Calvin".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Calvin. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 76.1% confident that Calvin is pronounced as KAL-vihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAL-vuhn, at 15.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like K AE1 L V IH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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