What many people probably didn’t know: The first name Kevin actually originates in the Irish language. It means something like ‘beautiful’ or ‘pleasant’, and is the anglicized form of the Irish given name Caoimhín.
Kevin is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The first name Kevin is one of the top 100 most popular boys names in the US – currently at #95 in our SmartGenius ranking. Over 1,000 babies each year are named Kevin, accounting for approximately 0.20 % of all newborn boys. In total, there are currently 1,170,892 people – children, adults and seniors – named Kevin living in the United States, which is approximately 0.35 % of the entire population.
What many people probably didn’t know: The first name Kevin actually originates in the Irish language. It means something like ‘beautiful’ or ‘pleasant’, and is the anglicized form of the Irish given name Caoimhín.
Especially in Germany,... Kevin became associated with low social status, an attitude popularised based on primary teachers' reactions to children's given names.
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When you hear the name Kevin, you might first think of people. But did you know that there are also places with the name Kevin? Are you also called Kevin? Maybe one day you will visit the places that are named just like you...
you can find a Toole County called Kevin. The population is about 154 and it is named after Thomas Kevin, superintendent of a railway company.
on Saint Kevin's Way, a pilgrim path in County Wicklow, Ireland. It is 19 miles long and begins in the village of Hollywood.
was and Irish Saint there are many Churches named after him. One of them is located in Miami, Florida.
Who would have thought it? After many years of not appearing at all in the SmartGenius statistics, Kevin reached its highest rank ever in the year 1963 at #11. In other words: 30,737 newborn boys were named Kevin that year. Since then, it has been considered to be a universally popular name, chosen by a large number of happy parents every year. Although the times of its highest popularity are now many decades ago, Kevin is still going strong and has not been forgotten yet. We can only wait and see if there will be a new surprise in store and if Kevin will be able to top its all-time best ranking ever again.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Kevin was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Kevin ranked 180 in our SmartGenius statistics. In absolute figures, this means it was given to baby boys a total of 2,060 times. No one knows what names (or combinations of numbers and letters) will be popular 50 years from now, but given its consistent popularity, there is a good chance that Kevin will remain a universally popular name.
Wherever you go, wherever you live – there’s a good chance to meet Kevin. Because: There are men and boys named Kevin in every state in the USA. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the nearly 50,000 different male first names that occur in the USA, just 386 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Kevin is definitely something very special. In some regions it even makes it into the top 100 of the most popular male first names, for example in Maryland, where Kevin ranks on position 15. The greatest chance of meeting Kevin, however, is in Delaware, where one in 96 boys and men bears this beautiful name – that is far above average – in the entire USA it is only one in 143 men and boys and in Mississippi, where the name is least represented in relation to the population, you even have to ask an average of 263 men and boys for their name before you once get Kevin as an answer.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a real popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 7.9% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters J, A and D are more common for boys' names.
With five letters, the name Kevin 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 if 7.9% of all boys' names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the boys’ names that begin with a K, Kenneth is the most common.
If your name is Kevin 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 Kevin, 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. Kevin sounds like this:
