Mervin
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mervin is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variante bretonne voisine de Morgan; d’origine celtique.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 7K(inferred from the name graph)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 9.3K
- CACanada≈1 in 23K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 311 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variante bretonne voisine de Morgan; d’origine celtique.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mervin 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | Mervin | 89 |
| US United States | 6,257 | 1 in 53K | 6.2K | Mervin | 311 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | — | Mervin | 64 |
| VE Venezuela | 3,954 | 1 in 7.2K | 4K | — | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 23K | 1 | Mervin | 111 |
| SG Singapore | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Mervin | 60 |
| GY Guyana | 201 | 1 in 3.7K | 201 | — | 4 |
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; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mervin C. Stanleyb. 1857USAmerican politician
- Mervin Joe Kellyb. 1894USAmerican physicist (1894–1971)
- Richard M. Bissell, Jr.b. 1909USnot in their usual nameAmerican spy (1909-1994)
- Mervin Kayeb. 1929CACanadian rower
- Mervin F. Verbitb. 1936USAmerican sociologist
- Mervin Jacksonb. 1946USAmerican basketball player (1946-2012)
- Gary Thainb. 1948NZnot in their usual nameNew Zealand bassist (1948–1975)
- Billy McKinneyb. 1955USnot in their usual nameAmerican basketball player, executive, and sports analyst (born 1955)
- Merv Tweedb. 1955CAnot in their usual nameCanadian politician
- Mervin Tranb. 1990CACanadian pair skater
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 67 sources across 44 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6.2K | #3,380 |
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 4K | #323 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 201 | #394 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 58 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 52 | #3,380 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1935 | 5 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2021 | 1 | #2,059 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- Is Mervin a male or female name?
- Mervin 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.
- What does the name Mervin mean?
- Recorded meaning: Variante bretonne voisine de Morgan; d’origine celtique.
- What are other forms of the name Mervin?
- In the etymology graph, Mervyn and Merfyn are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Mervin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Mervin in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mervin.
- Where is Mervin most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mervin is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 3.7 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mervin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,257 people named Mervin in 2020, about 1 in 53 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mervinThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Mervin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.