Gervin

surname · Latin script

Meaning: perhaps an altered form of Gerboin, from a pet form of the Germanic personal name Gerbert (see Gerbracht)

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ɡɝvɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Gervin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 967K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 96K
  • NONorway1 in 144K

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)

344 people, 2010

Sources
166 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 96K (inferred from the name graph)

Denmark

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

perhaps an altered form of Gerboin, from a pet form of the Germanic personal name Gerbert (see Gerbracht).

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(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.

Where Gervin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3441 in 967K457Gervin166
BR Brazil1961 in 1.1M196Gervin31
GB United Kingdom≈130 est.≈1 in 511K—Gervin51
AU Australia≈91 est.≈1 in 280K—Gervin9
DK Denmark611 in 96K61—1
CU Cuba≈59 est.≈1 in 186K—Gervin2
TN Tunisia≈40 est.≈1 in 294K—Gervin2
NO Norway381 in 144K38—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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gervin is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Gërvïn

38 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

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)

19001920194019601980Willy Gervin, b. 1903Ernst Gervin, b. 1908Karl Gervin, b. 1941George Gervin, b. 1952Derrick Gervin, b. 1963Gee Gervin, b. 1976

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)

FormalDear Gervin,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 35 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Gervin
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020457#49,659
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000401#49,249
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010344#58,876
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—196#37,400
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—61#8,808
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—38#30,881
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
  • Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)

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 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.
How do you pronounce Gervin?
A machine transcription gives /ɡɝvɪn/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Gervin have the most bearers?
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.
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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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 2026-10-10.

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