girls:
240 births since 1948
#5476 (4th percentile)
boys:
2.1k births since 1952
#2732 (40th percentile)
overall:
2.4k births since 1948
#5456 (29th percentile)
The name Kevyn is the #5,456 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,360 recorded births since 1948. This represents the 29.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 29.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,732 (40.4% percentile) for all time with 2,120 births since 1952. For girls, it ranks #5,476 (4.2% percentile) for all time with 240 births since 1948.
Kevyn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1948 (1948 for girls and 1952 for boys). Birth data for Kevyn is available in 70 out of the 76 years between 1948 and 2023 (68 years for boys and 28 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Kevyn has been given predominantly to boys, with 89.8% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Kevyn were boys. Interestingly, until around 1955, the name was more popular for girls (72.2% girls from 1948 to 1954), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (90.3% boys from 1955 to 2023).
For boys, Kevyn reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 11.5% percentile (ranked #782) with 48 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 48 births per million (ranked 11.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2010, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Kevyn ranks #904 for boys (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 13.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Kevyn reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #812) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2014.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kevyn".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Kevyn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 78.4% confident that Kevyn is pronounced as KEH-vihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KEH-veen, at 10.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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