Dervin
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈdɝvɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dervin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Lancs. from Ó Dearbháin, see Dervan .
- FRFrance≈1 in 26M(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 293K
- USUnited States1 in 934K
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
- 163 (measured from records)
- 1 in 293K (inferred from the name graph)
356 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): Lancs. from Ó Dearbháin, see Dervan .
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dervin 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 | 356 | 1 in 934K | 379 | Dervin | 15 |
| BE Belgium | 40 | 1 in 293K | 40 | Dervin | 9 |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | 3 |
| FR France | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 26M | 129 | Dervin | 163 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Dervin | 7 |
| ES Spain | — | — | — | Dervin | 1 |
356 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
- Brenda Dervinb. 1938USAmerican academic
- José Dervinb. 1948FRFrench politician
- Norbert Dervinb. 1949FRFrench politician
- Sylvie Dervinb. 1953FRFrench writer
- Alain Dervinb. 1957FRFrench politician
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 26 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 379 | #51,583 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 356 | #57,234 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 355 | #61,138 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 219 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 181 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 169 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 158 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 152 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 129 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 128 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 107 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 89 | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Dervin mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Lancs. from Ó Dearbháin, see Dervan . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Dervin?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdɝvɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Dervin have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 356 people named Dervin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dervin.
- Where is Dervin most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dervin is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 293 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Dervin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 356 people named Dervin in 2010, about 1 in 934 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/dervinThe 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, “Dervin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.