Kalvin
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 26 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/kalβin/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Kalvin is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kenya than in any other country. In Hong Kong it is the 42nd most common given name. Kalvin is also written เคลวิน in Thai and Κελβιν in Greek.
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.7M(measured from records)
- KEKenya≈1 in 220as Kelvin
- TZTanzania≈1 in 510as Kelvin
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kalvin itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Kenya (inferred from the name graph)
- #751 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 544 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.7M (inferred from the name graph)
≈260,000 named Kelvin, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Kalvin in other scripts: Latin, Thai and Greek
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kelvin in NG Nigeria, SG Singapore, HK Hong Kong and 1 more and Calvin in US United States, KE Kenya, TZ Tanzania.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
How to pronounce Kalvin
- Spanish:/kalβin/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kalvin 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | #382 | ≈260,000 est. | ≈1 in 216 | — | Calvin | 51 |
| TZ Tanzania | #571 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 513 | — | Calvin | 39 |
| US United States | #306 | 124,765as Calvin | 1 in 2.7K | 125K | Calvin | 544 |
| NG Nigeria | #476 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Kelvin | 119 |
| BR Brazil | — | 40,851as Kelvin | 1 in 5.2K | 41K | — | 6 |
| HK Hong Kong | #42 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 568 | — | Kelvin | 102 |
| SG Singapore | #63 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Kelvin | 147 |
| GY Guyana | — | 613as Kelvin | 1 in 1.2K | 613 | — | 11 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 10 | 1 in 1.7M | 1.6K | Kelvin | 76 |
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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Kalvin is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Finnish, reamer (tool)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Kalvin Soiresse Njallb. 1982BEBelgian politician
- Kalvin Phillipsb. 1995GBEnglish association football player (born 1995)
- Kalvin Olafsonb. 2000CACanadian actor
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)45 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 26 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Kalvin?
- In Spanish /kalβin/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Kalvin a male or female name?
- Kalvin is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), France (INSEE, 2024) and Brazil (IBGE, 2022).
- Which countries have the most people named Kalvin?
- Mondonomo estimates about 261 thousand people named Kelvin in Kenya, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Tanzania, United States, Nigeria and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Kalvin most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kalvin is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 1.7 million people — even though Kenya holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kalvin?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 10 people named Kalvin, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
- How common is Kalvin compared with other names?
- In Kenya, Kalvin is the 382nd most common given name of 56,552 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kalvin?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kalvinThe 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, “Kalvin” — the 382nd most common given name in Kenya. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.