The French name Calvin is derived from the name ‘Cauvin’. It is a variant of the Latin name ‘Calvinus’, which means ‘bald’ or ‘little bald one’. it was a nickname for someone with a close-cropped or bald head.
Calvin is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Calvin isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Calvin ranks 150. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 14 were named Calvin. In the entire USA, approximately 206,040 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Calvin. That is 0.06 % of all living Americans.
The French name Calvin is derived from the name ‘Cauvin’. It is a variant of the Latin name ‘Calvinus’, which means ‘bald’ or ‘little bald one’. it was a nickname for someone with a close-cropped or bald head.
As a surname,... Calvin was borne by John Calvin, a 16th-century French theologian and religious reformer, who was a key figure in the development of the Protestant Reformation.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Calvin is a staple in the country: Boys have been given the name Calvin for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Calvin is therefore one of only 442 boys’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Calvin is a very special name that peaked in popularity some time ago in the 20th century. Placed at #43 Calvin easily made it into the top 100 boys' names of our SmartGenius statistics for male first names and has never been more popular than back in 1924.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Calvin was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As many as 2,581 babies were named Calvin in the USA in 2022, ranking it at #147 on the list of the most popular boys' names for that year. However, it experienced its lowest point of popularity in 2009, when it was only ranked #225 of all male names in our SmartGenius statistics – back then only 1,576 boys were named Calvin.
There are only 386 different male names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Calvin is one of them. However, Calvin is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Mississippi seem to particularly fancy this name – the 5,895 men called Calvin who live here are 0,295% of all male residents and push their name up to #71 in our SmartGenius statistics, easily placing it in the top 100 most common male names in Mississippi. If you look at all the states in the USA together, you can currently find as many as 206,040 people with the name Calvin. Across all regions and age groups, this lands Calvin on position 169 in our SmartGenius ranking of the top male names – of course, the current popularity as a baby name for newborns looks somewhat different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for boys’ names. This is because 5.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.
With six letters, the name Calvin is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
With 5.2% of all boys' names that begin with a C, this first letter is thus much more common than the average of all letters. And which boys’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Charles.
If your name is Calvin and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Calvin, you can simply say:
Cat
Apple
Lion
Violin
Igloo
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Calvin
Calvin
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
A
L
V
I
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
C
A
L
V
I
N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Calvin sounds like this:
