# Ervin (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ervin/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 39,129 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 38,991 / 138 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 122, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1926 | 8 | 3,676 |
| 1927 | 9 | 3,376 |
| 1930 | 6 | 4,207 |
| 1934 | 5 | 4,481 |
| 1937 | 7 | 3,558 |
| 1944 | 5 | 4,783 |
| 1945 | 5 | 4,760 |
| 1946 | 7 | 4,119 |
| 1948 | 5 | 5,494 |
| 1953 | 8 | 4,341 |
| 1962 | 7 | 5,460 |
| 1979 | 6 | 9,341 |
| 1981 | 6 | 9,445 |
| 1988 | 5 | 12,390 |
| 1990 | 5 | 13,647 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 116 | 1,425 |
| 2012 | 110 | 1,468 |
| 2013 | 130 | 1,323 |
| 2014 | 109 | 1,487 |
| 2015 | 98 | 1,628 |
| 2016 | 91 | 1,708 |
| 2017 | 116 | 1,462 |
| 2018 | 102 | 1,609 |
| 2019 | 108 | 1,551 |
| 2020 | 93 | 1,689 |
| 2021 | 81 | 1,891 |
| 2022 | 102 | 1,683 |
| 2023 | 86 | 1,854 |
| 2024 | 82 | 1,926 |
| 2025 | 101 | 1,656 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 9 | 1,892 |
| 2008 | 5 | 3,158 |
| 2009 | 3 | 4,527 |
| 2010 | 8 | 2,400 |
| 2011 | 9 | 2,194 |
| 2012 | 4 | 3,987 |
| 2013 | 6 | 2,954 |
| 2015 | 5 | 3,373 |
| 2016 | 8 | 2,556 |
| 2018 | 6 | 3,011 |
| 2019 | 6 | 3,013 |
| 2020 | 6 | 2,960 |
| 2021 | 6 | 3,017 |
| 2023 | 4 | 4,107 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4,270 |

## People named Ervin

- Ervin Zukanović, Bosnia and Herzegovina association football player
- Ervin Skela, Albanian footballer
- Ervin Bulku, Albanian footballer
- Ervin Mészáros, fencer (1877–1940)
- Ervin Hall, American hurdler
- Ervin Johnson, American basketball player (born 1967)
- Pablo Ervin Schmitz Simon, American priest
- Ervin Drake, American songwriter (1919-2015)
- Ervin Szabó, Anarcho-syndicalist social scientist and librarian
- Ervin Omić, Austrian association football player
- Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian SS officer (1903–1969)
- Ervin Vaca, Bolivian footballer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.