Çalvin
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Çalvin is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kenya than in any other country. In Hong Kong it is the 42nd most common given name. Recorded meaning: Latinization of Middle French Cauvin, a nickname for a chauve (“bald”) person.
- USUnited States1 in 2.7K(measured from records)
- KEKenya≈1 in 214as Kelvin
- TZTanzania≈1 in 476as Kelvin
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Çalvin itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Kenya (inferred from the name graph)
- #751 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 544 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈250,000 named Kelvin, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Laos, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Kelvin in NG Nigeria, SG Singapore, HK Hong Kong and 1 more and Calvin in US United States, KE Kenya, TZ Tanzania.
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)Latinization of Middle French Cauvin, a nickname for a chauve (“bald”) person.
Cited for this meaning 7
- A concise dictionary of first names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Çalvin 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | #382 | ≈250,000 est. | ≈1 in 214 | — | Calvin | 51 |
| NG Nigeria | #476 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Kelvin | 119 |
| US United States | #306 | 124,765 | 1 in 2.7K | 125K | Calvin | 544 |
| TZ Tanzania | #571 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 476 | — | Calvin | 39 |
| BR Brazil | — | 40,851as Kelvin | 1 in 5.2K | 41K | — | 6 |
| HK Hong Kong | #42 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 596 | — | Kelvin | 102 |
| SG Singapore | #63 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Kelvin | 147 |
| LA Laos | #777 | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Kelvin | 9 |
| GY Guyana | — | 613as Kelvin | 1 in 1.2K | 613 | — | 11 |
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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Çalvin mean, and where does it come from?
- Latinization of Middle French Cauvin, a nickname for a chauve (“bald”) person. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 5 other sources.
- Is Çalvin a male or female name?
- Çalvin 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 Çalvin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 250 thousand people named Kelvin in Kenya, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Çalvin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 124,765 people named Çalvin in 2020, about 1 in 2.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Çalvin compared with other names?
- In Kenya, Çalvin is the 382nd most common given name of 56,552 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A7alvinThe 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, “Çalvin” — the 382nd most common given name in Kenya. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.