girls:
138 births since 1914
#5578 (2nd percentile)
boys:
38.8k births since 1880
#575 (87th percentile)
overall:
38.9k births since 1880
#1262 (84th percentile)
The name Ervin is the #1,262 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 38,922 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 83.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 83.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #575 (87.5% percentile) for all time with 38,784 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,578 (2.4% percentile) for all time with 138 births since 1914.
Ervin 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 Ervin has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Ervin reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 70.4% percentile (ranked #159) with 791 births per million. The name was most common in 1919, with 791 births per million (ranked 70.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Ervin ranks #830 for boys (8.9% percentile) with 47 births per million, which is 5.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Ervin reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #599) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1927, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1990.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ervin".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Ervin", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 10 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Irvin" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Irvin..
Our model found one way to pronounce the name Ervin. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Ervin is pronounced as ER-vihn, which has 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 ER1 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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