The name Marvin has origins in the Welsh Merfyn with an uncertain meaning, and also in Old English Mærwine meaning ‘famous friend’. Originally, Marvin was used as a surname.
Marvin is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Marvin 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, Marvin ranks 526. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 3 were named Marvin. In the entire USA, approximately 245,189 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Marvin. That is 0.07 % of all living Americans.
The name Marvin has origins in the Welsh Merfyn with an uncertain meaning, and also in Old English Mærwine meaning ‘famous friend’. Originally, Marvin was used as a surname.
This name has... always been known in the U.S.. It had its most popular phase around 1930.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Marvin is a staple in the country: Boys have been given the name Marvin for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Marvin is therefore one of only 442 boys’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Marvin is a very special name that peaked in popularity some time ago in the 20th century. Placed at #43 Marvin 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 1931.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Marvin was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As many as 453 babies were named Marvin in the USA in 2022, ranking it at #580 on the list of the most popular boys' names for that year. However, it experienced its lowest point of popularity in 2021, when it was only ranked #590 of all male names in our SmartGenius statistics – back then only 446 boys were named Marvin.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names – 6.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J and A.
With six letters, the name Marvin 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.
That means that with 6.2% of all boys' names that begin with an M, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which boys’ name with M is the most common... the answer is Michael.
If your name is Marvin 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 Marvin, 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.
Marvin
Marvin
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. Marvin sounds like this:
