Bivins
surname · Latin script
Meaning: v. BEVIN
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Bivins is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- LRLiberia≈1 in 14Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 59K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 68Kfew records
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)
- Record sources
- 333 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
5,681 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Liberia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)v. BEVIN.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where the surname Bivins is found
(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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 5,681 | 1 in 59K | 5.7K | Bivins | 333 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 115K | listed | Bivins | 40 |
| LR Liberia | #350 | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Bivins | 2 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 117K | — | Bivins | 12 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 472K | — | Bivins | 3 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈89 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Bivins | 3 |
5,681 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; 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)
- Teel Bivinsb. 1947USAmerican politician (1947-2009)
- Michael Bivinsb. 1968USAmerican musician
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bivins?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.7 thousand people named Bivins, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bivins. After it come United Kingdom, Liberia, Canada and Philippines; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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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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 2026-10-13.