Bivins
surname · Latin script
Meaning: v. BEVIN
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Bivins is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 59K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 125K
- LRLiberia≈1 in 13K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 333 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈21,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Liberia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
v. BEVIN.
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bivins 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Bivins | 6 |
| US United States | — | 5,681 | 1 in 59K | 5.7K | Bivins | 333 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 125K | listed | Bivins | 40 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 125K | — | Bivins | 4 |
| LR Liberia | #350 | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Bivins | 2 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 120K | — | Bivins | 1 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Bivins | 3 |
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; the reaney-english-surnames-1991 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jimmy Bivinsb. 1919USAmerican boxer (1919–2012)
- Charlie Bivinsb. 1938USAmerican football player (1938-1994)
- Teel Bivinsb. 1947USAmerican politician (1947-2009)
- Tim Bivinsb. 1952USAmerican politician
- Michael Bivinsb. 1968USAmerican musician
- Jason Bivinsb. 1969American religious studies scholar, university teacher and jazz guitarist (born 1969)
- Roberta Bivinsb. 1970researcher
- Jahmal Bivinsb. 1986USbasketball player
- Shelley BivinsUSProducer
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 8 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.7K | #6,045 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.4K | #5,875 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.4K | #6,108 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of English Surnames (Reaney & Wilson, 1991) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname 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 Bivins mean, and where does it come from?
- v. BEVIN. Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Bivins have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 21 thousand people named Bivins in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bivins.
- How common is the name Bivins?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,681 people named Bivins in 2010, about 1 in 59 thousand residents.
- How common is Bivins compared with other names?
- In Liberia, Bivins is the 350th most common surname of 10,200 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bivinsThe 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, “Bivins” — the 350th most common surname in Liberia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.