Ervin
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Estepan, Estephan, Estevao, Esteve, Esteven, Estevo, Estiven, Étienne, Magnífico
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɝˌvɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ervin is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 8.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- ITItaly≈1 in 13K
- USUnited States1 in 20K
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)
- Sources
- 439 (measured from records)
- 1 in 804 (inferred from the name graph)
16,457 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Estepan, Estephan, Estevao, Esteve, Esteven, Estevo, Estiven, Étienne, Magnífico
Sources 1
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ervin 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 | — | 16,457 | 1 in 20K | 26K | Ervin | 439 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | — | Ervin | 86 |
| HU Hungary | — | 5,488 | 1 in 1.8K | 5.5K | — | 4 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Ervin | 30 |
| AL Albania | — | 3,826 | 1 in 804 | 3.8K | — | 3 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 988 | 1 in 2.1K | 988 | — | 15 |
| HR Croatia | — | 671 | 1 in 6.3K | 671 | — | 2 |
| SG Singapore | #784 | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Ervin | 34 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 6K | 758 | — | 3 |
16,457 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); SURS — resident population given names; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)
Ervin is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Stepan, Stepanek, Stephan, Stephanos, Amigo del mar
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In kw, turnips
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkish, 1. Şeref, saygınlık. 2. Barış. 3. Rüzgâr. 4. Veda.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
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)
- Ervin Nyíregyházib. 1903HUHungarian-American pianist virtuoso (1903–1987)
- Robert E. Howardb. 1906USnot in their usual nameAmerican author (1906–1936)
- Ervin Drakeb. 1919USAmerican songwriter (1919-2015)
- Ervin Laszlob. 1932HUHungarian musician and philosopher (1932–2026)
- Donald Knuthb. 1938USnot in their usual nameAmerican computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)
- Ronald McNairb. 1950USnot in their usual nameAmerican physicist, astronaut (1950-1986)
- Dan Jansenb. 1965USnot in their usual nameAmerican speed skater
- Ervin Johnsonb. 1967USAmerican basketball player (born 1967)
- Ervin Nagyb. 1976HUHungarian actor
- Ervin Zukanovićb. 1987BABosnia and Herzegovina association football player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 91 sources across 51 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 16K | #1,802 |
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2025 | 5.5K | #90 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 3.8K | #54 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 988 | #188 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 976 | #402 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 758 | #876 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 671 | #656 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 628 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 101 | — |
| HU Hungary | magyarnevek — given names by decade | 1990 | 62 | #80 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 51 | #1,802 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register) | 2017 | 5 | — |
Reference works 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- In which country does Ervin have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 16 thousand people named Ervin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ervin.
- Where is Ervin most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ervin is densest in Albania — about 1 in 804 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- What are other forms of the name Ervin?
- In the etymology graph, Erwin and Ervīns are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Ervin?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɝˌvɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Ervin mean?
- Recorded meaning: Estepan, Estephan, Estevao, Esteve, Esteven, Estevo, Estiven, Étienne, Magnífico
- Is Ervin a male or female name?
- Ervin 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.
- How common is the name Ervin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 16,457 people named Ervin in 2020, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
- How common is Ervin compared with other names?
- In Singapore, Ervin is the 784th most common given name of 52,448 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ervinThe 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, “Ervin” — the 784th most common given name in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.