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Calvin

Say it: KAL-vin/ˈkælvɪn/

BoyMeans bald6 letters2 syllables

#211

in Ireland (2025)

#210 with spellings combined

22

babies in 2025

#116

best rank (1997)

1,120

babies since 1983

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10-year rank change

Calvin through the years

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Calvin: babies per year in Ireland, 1964 to 20250204060196419701980199020002010202020251998: CSO series changePeak 2010: 57
Calvin: rank per year in Ireland, 1964 to 2025#1#10#50#100#250#500196419701980199020002010202020251998: CSO series change
Calvin: per 10,000 boys per year in Ireland, 1964 to 202505101520196419701980199020002010202020251998: CSO series change
Babies per 10,000 boys listed by the CSO that year, which evens out changes in the number of births.
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YearBabies (boys)Rank
202522#210
202422#213
202315#280
202229#177
202128#186
202035#157
201945#132
201837#160
201754#117
201636#166
201552#127
201442#157
201337#176
201229#202
201140#170
201057#135
200939#159
200838#169
200745#141
200635#149
200528#162
200428#151
200325#156
200219#180
200125#145
200029#135
199933#121
199831#121
199740#116
199634#133
199516#168
199417#161
199315#180
19929#210
19913#324
19905#256
19895#253
19885#254
19864#283
19854#269
19845#250
19833#330

Source: CSO, Irish Babies' Names (VSA50, VSA60), CC BY 4.0.

★ What does Calvin mean?

Bald

French surname Cauvin, from Latin calvus (bald), made Latin as Calvinus.

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KALvin

The story of Calvin

Calvin began as a nickname for a bald man. The northern French surname Cauvin comes from the Latin calvus, “bald”, and it was written in Latin as Calvinus. It became famous through John Calvin, the sixteenth-century Protestant reformer, and it was taken up as a first name by Protestant families.

As a modern first name, its popularity is often put down as much to the American fashion designer Calvin Klein as to the reformer.

Calvin first reached the CSO list in 1983. Its biggest year was 2010, with 57 boys, and it has stayed on the list every year since, with 22 boys in 2025. In Northern Ireland it reached number 99 in 1998, just inside the top 100.

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Sources
  • Wiktionary: Calvin (English proper noun)
  • Wikipedia: Calvin (given name)
  • CSO VSA50, Boys Names in Ireland with 3 or More Occurrences
  • NISRA, First Forenames Given to Babies Registered in Northern Ireland

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Spelling2025All years
Calvin221,120

In Northern Ireland

#314 in 2025 with 5 babies. Best rank #99 (1998); 336 babies since 1997.

Source: NISRA, Open Government Licence.

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