Elvin is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
Elvin is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1335 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,334 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 15,103 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Elvin. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Elvin annualy. This means that there have been boys named Elvin who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Elvin have consistently been special. A small flight of popularity was experienced by the name way back in the last century and in one particular year, parents liked Elvin even more than any other time: in 1915, it holds its present record at rank #270 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Elvin was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Elvin has never been ranked higher than #270. In 2022, he rivaled the 1,566 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 97 boys named Elvin were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Elvin were born, there have been 132 newborns who received this name.
You may not know anyone named Elvin, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 39 states are home to men and boys named Elvin. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Elvin living in one state or another. If your name is Elvin and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Louisiana, which has the most people named Elvin relative to the population, you still have to ask 3,855 men and boys their names before you hear Elvin as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter E is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 3.8% 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, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With five letters, the name Elvin is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. 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.
That means that with 3.8%, E as the first letter in boys' names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average - and of all the boys' names that start with an E, Edward is the most common.
If your name is Elvin 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 Elvin, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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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.
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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. Elvin sounds like this:
