Kévin
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, variant of Kevin, a less common spelling of Kevin
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kévin is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 35th most common given name.
- IEIreland≈1 in 227(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 234
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 258
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #74 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 692 (measured from records)
- 1 in 203 (inferred from the name graph)
1,015,227 people, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kevin in US United States, GB United Kingdom, FR France and 6 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a male given name, variant of Kevin, a less common spelling of Kevin
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kévin counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #35 | 1,015,227 | 1 in 328 | 1M | Kevin | 692 |
| GB United Kingdom | #40 | ≈250,000 est. | ≈1 in 258 | 887 | Kevin | 402 |
| FR France | #55 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 416 | 153K | Kevin | 432 |
| CO Colombia | #93 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 372 | — | Kevin | 186 |
| CA Canada | #27 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 291 | 46 | Kevin | 397 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 83,192 | 1 in 203 | 83K | Kevin | 80 |
| BE Belgium | #37 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 283 | 36 | Kevin | 201 |
| SV El Salvador | #61 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 234 | — | Kevin | 92 |
| IE Ireland | #18 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 227 | — | Kevin | 201 |
1,015,227 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; INEC — civil registry names; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kévin is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Du gaélique Caoimhín, traditionnellement interprété « le bien planté »; fête à saint Kévin.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Du gaélique Caoimhín, probablement « beau de naissance » ou « doux ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kévin Constantb. 1987FRGuinean and French footballer
- Kévin Monnet-Paquetb. 1988FRFrench footballer (born 1988)
- Kévin Rézab. 1988FRFrench racing cyclist
- Kévin Théophile-Catherineb. 1989FRFrench footballer (born 1989)
- Kévin Le Rouxb. 1989FRFrench volleyball player and beach volleyball player
- Kévin Azaïsb. 1992FRFrench actor (born 1992)
- Jordan Amavib. 1994FRnot in their usual nameFrench footballer (born 1994)
- Kévin Rodriguesb. 1994FRPortuguese footballer
- Kévin Aymozb. 1997FRFrench figure skater
- Kévin Denkeyb. 2000TGTogolese footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 15K | #1,375 |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kévin mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, variant of Kevin, a less common spelling of Kevin Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Kévin?
- In the etymology graph, Kevan, Kevyn and Kev are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Kévin a male or female name?
- Kévin is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Kévin have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.0 million people named Kévin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kevin.
- Where is Kévin most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kévin is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 203 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kévin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,015,227 people named Kévin in 2020, about 1 in 328 residents.
- How common is Kévin compared with other names?
- In the United States, Kévin is the 35th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C3%A9vinThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kévin” — the 35th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.