Gervin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: perhaps an altered form of Gerboin, from a pet form of the Germanic personal name Gerbert (see Gerbracht)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Gervin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 96K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 144K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 250Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 166 (measured from records)
- 1 in 96K (inferred from the name graph)
344 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)perhaps an altered form of Gerboin, from a pet form of the Germanic personal name Gerbert (see Gerbracht).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Gervin is found
(measured from records)Gervin 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 | 344 | 1 in 967K | 457 | Gervin | 166 |
| BR Brazil | 196 | 1 in 1.1M | 196 | Gervin | 31 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 491K | — | Gervin | 51 |
| AU Australia | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 251K | — | Gervin | 9 |
| CA Canada | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 604K | — | Gervin | 28 |
| DK Denmark | 61 | 1 in 96K | 61 | — | 1 |
| CU Cuba | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 228K | — | Gervin | 2 |
| NO Norway | 38 | 1 in 144K | 38 | — | 2 |
344 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)Gervin 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 German, habitational name from Gervin near Kolberg, southeast of Berlin.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, Prosperous spearman.
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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)- Willy Gervinb. 1903DKDanish cyclist (1903-1951)
- George Gervinb. 1952USAmerican basketball player (born 1952)
- Derrick Gervinb. 1963USAmerican basketball player (born 1963)
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)35 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gervin mean, and where does it come from?
- perhaps an altered form of Gerboin, from a pet form of the Germanic personal name Gerbert (see Gerbracht). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Gervin?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 344 people named Gervin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gervin. After it come Brazil, United Kingdom, Australia and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Gervin most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gervin is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 96 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gervin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 344 people named Gervin in 2010, about 1 in 967 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gervinThe 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, “Gervin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.