Kevyn
Masculine · “Irish caomh”
Kevyn is given to both — 2,141 boys and 240 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Kevin of Glendalough is said to have held out his hand in prayer until a blackbird nested in it, and then to have stayed still until the eggs hatched. The story is a legend, and it is the reason anyone remembers him.
How old is the name Kevyn?
Kevyn first appears in US birth records in 1952 — 73 years ago. The typical Kevyn alive today was born around 2002, making them about 23 years old. About 2,100 people named Kevyn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kevyn most popular?
Kevyn peaked in 2007, reaching #1496 nationally. Today it ranks #10695, 9,199 places below that high. See the whole 2007 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Caoimhin to Kevyn
The story of Kevyn
Coemgen of Glendalough, who died in the seventh century, founded a monastery in a steep valley in Wicklow that became one of the great Irish religious sites, with a round tower and a set of churches still standing. The stories told about him are all about stillness and animals: the blackbird nesting in his outstretched hand, the otter that brought him salmon, the years spent in a cave above the lake. None of them is historical and all of them are old, and they made him one of the best loved of the Irish saints. The name means gentle, which fits the legend a little too neatly. It became an ordinary American and British name in the twentieth century, and this spelling belongs to the late respelling phase.
Meaning
Irish caomh, gentle or kind
Kevin is the anglicized Irish Caoimhin, from caomh, meaning gentle, kind or beloved, with a diminutive ending. Kevyn substitutes y for the second i; the peak of this spelling is 2007.
How the name formed
- Caoimhin
- Kevin
- Kevyn
Related forms: Caoimhin · Kevin · Kevin
Pronouncing Kevyn
KEV-in
Two syllables, stress on the first. Kevin and Kevyn are homophones; the Irish Caoimhin is KWEE-veen.
Nicknames for Kevyn
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1952
- Most boys named
- 2007106 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1496reached in 2007
- Change vs 2024
- −60.0%6 in 2025, from 15
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Kevyn in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Caoimhin in Irish — same name
- Kevin in English — spelling variant
- Kevin in French — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California.
Kevyns among us
people named Kevyn are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 284,679 born in 2025 was named Kevyn
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kevyn
- #10695
- Kevyn on the 2025 chart
- #223
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kevyn went to 6 boys in 2025, but Kevin is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 1,634, which makes it the 223rd most-given boys’ name of the year — 10,472 places above the chart.
- Kevin1,628
- Kevyn6
About 1 boy in 1,045 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 284,679 for Kevyn itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Jerardo test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kevyn's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jerardo climbed just as high around 1980, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jerardo's path sketches the road Kevyn is walking now.
Kevyn sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Kevyn beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kevyn in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Kev is a short, established, low-fuss clip.
- The Irish meaning is documented and gentle.
- Two syllables with a firm opening.
- Kevin is the standard spelling by an enormous margin.
- The y is sometimes read as female.
- The 2007 peak dates this form.
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Masculine · #10695 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Kevyns are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,100 people named Kevyn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kevyn?
- Kevyn is one of 2 recorded spellings. Kevin is the more common one — 1,628 births in 2025 against 6 for Kevyn.
- How popular is the name Kevyn in 2025?
- Kevyn ranks #10695 among US boy names in 2025, with 6 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kevyn?
- About 1 in every 284,679 US boys born in 2025 was named Kevyn — 6 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kevyn with classmates?
- Kevyn will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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