Kelvin

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Kelvin: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Kelvin: Recorded since 1954, it reached #78 in 1968, and it stood at #1,460 in 2024.

5registrars recorded it
103times a registrar ranked it
71years from first to last
#78highest recorded position
22groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#362
1997	#360
1998	#367
1999	#423
2000	#436
2001	#428
2002	#516
2003	#490
2004	#500
2005	#520
2006	#631
2007	#560
2008	#583
2009	#596
2010	#687
2011	#831
2012	#837
2013	#882
2014	#988
2015	#950
2016	#1081
2017	#968
2018	#1683
2019	#1745
2020	#1431
2021	#1860
2022	#1781
2023	#1272
2024	#1460

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Republic of Ireland in 43 of the 51 years from 1972 to 2022.

In 2022: #779 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #1781 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 5 national registrars across 5 regions, 1954–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1954
First recorded at #100 among boys in New Zealand in 1954 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
New Zealand · Boys
Highest recorded1954–1974
Highest recorded position: #78 among boys in New Zealand, in 1968 (recorded 1954–1974).
New Zealand · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1460 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Kelvin appears in 5 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Boys, with 43 ranked years and 361 births registered; the earliest is New Zealand · Boys, from 1954.

Kelvin across 5 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Kelvin's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#254 (1972)	#154 (1998)	#779 (2022)	43 of 51	361 (1972–2022)	19 (1998)
England and Wales · Boys	#362 (1996)	#360 (1997)	#1460 (2024)	29 of 29	1,119 (1996–2024)	65 (1997)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#210 (1997)	#210 (1997)	#392 (2020)	9 of 24	37 (1997–2020)	6 (1997)
New Zealand · Boys	#100 (1954)	#78 (1968)	#96 (1974)	17 of 21	1,262 (1954–1974)	97 (1968)
New South Wales, Australia · Boys	#97 (1956)	#91 (1957)	#99 (1963)	5 of 8	312 (1956–1963)	72 (1957)

Kelvin by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Kelvin in Republic of Ireland · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1970s	18	5 of 10	4
1980s	51	9 of 10	6
1990sbusiest	132	10 of 10	13
2000s	110	10 of 10	11
2010s	44	7 of 10	6
2020s	6	2 of 10	3

Across Republic of Ireland · Boys, the 1990s were its busiest decade, averaging 13 births a year.

See the names Republic of Irelandhas recorded the most births with →

Kelvin appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1954 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #78 in New Zealand in 1968.

Kelvin's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#1460	18	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1272	21	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1781	13	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1860	12	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1431	17	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1745	13	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1683	14	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#968	31	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1081	26	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#950	31	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#988	29	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#882	33	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#837	37	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#831	36	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#687	45	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#596	54	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#583	56	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#560	55	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#631	44	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#520	52	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#500	52	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#490	49	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#516	41	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#428	50	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#436	48	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#423	52	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#367	62	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#360	65	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#362	63	High	Verified
1963	New South Wales, Australia	male	#99	59	Insufficient	Not yet available
1962	New South Wales, Australia	male	#100	59	Insufficient	Not yet available
1961	New South Wales, Australia	male	#97	66	Insufficient	Not yet available
1957	New South Wales, Australia	male	#91	72	Insufficient	Not yet available
1956	New South Wales, Australia	male	#97	56	Insufficient	Not yet available
1974	New Zealand	male	#96	67	High	Verified
1973	New Zealand	male	#96	73	High	Verified
1971	New Zealand	male	#91	84	High	Verified
1970	New Zealand	male	#91	80	High	Verified
1969	New Zealand	male	#89	86	High	Verified
1968	New Zealand	male	#78	97	High	Verified
1967	New Zealand	male	#91	70	High	Verified
1966	New Zealand	male	#89	72	High	Verified
1965	New Zealand	male	#83	82	High	Verified
1964	New Zealand	male	#81	80	High	Verified
1963	New Zealand	male	#82	79	High	Verified
1962	New Zealand	male	#93	67	High	Verified
1961	New Zealand	male	#85	77	High	Verified
1960	New Zealand	male	#82	81	High	Verified
1959	New Zealand	male	#89	67	High	Verified
1956	New Zealand	male	#93	53	High	Verified
1954	New Zealand	male	#100	47	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#392	3	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	male	#328	4	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	male	#357	3	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	male	#282	4	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	male	#307	3	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	male	#235	5	High	Verified
2002	Northern Ireland	male	#281	3	High	Verified
1999	Northern Ireland	male	#210	6	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	male	#210	6	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#779	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#741	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#610	4	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#491	6	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#550	5	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#534	5	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#548	5	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#490	6	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#322	13	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#429	7	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#346	11	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#342	9	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#295	10	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	male	#254	11	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	male	#233	12	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#200	15	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	male	#216	12	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	male	#226	10	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	male	#188	13	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	male	#169	17	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	male	#154	19	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	male	#189	15	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	male	#180	16	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	male	#168	16	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	male	#184	12	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	male	#184	14	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	male	#192	12	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	male	#242	6	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	male	#256	5	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	male	#232	6	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	male	#201	9	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	male	#203	9	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	male	#230	7	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	male	#234	6	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	male	#274	4	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	male	#282	4	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	male	#322	3	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	male	#321	3	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	male	#324	3	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	male	#288	4	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	male	#321	3	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	male	#320	3	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	male	#254	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 5 registrars between 1954 and 2024, ranked in 66 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #78, first reached in 1968.

It held a top-100 place in 18 years, 13 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 97 births, registered in New Zealand in 1968.

Its record falls into 5 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1956, and 43 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Kelsi · #440, 26y
Kelsie · #190, 31y
Kemal · #1040, 29y
Kemi · #655, 23y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 5 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Lawrence · #77, 67y
Beatrice · #80, 61y
Gina · #76, 71y
Dorothy · #75, 65y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Mikael · #78, 67y
Amira · #79, 50y
Daryl · #79, 69y
Grzegorz · #79, 60y

Kelvin was ranked #78 in New Zealand · Boys in 1968. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Kelvin and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Kelvin without appearing here.

Kelvin moved ahead of

Craig Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1781 and #1692 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #1272 and #2325.
Ross Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1781 and #1366 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #1272 and #2160.
Jon Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1860 and #1688 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #1781 and #2320.
Wayne Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1683 and #1683 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #1745 and #2266.

Moved ahead of Kelvin

Darragh Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1683 and #1991 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #1745 and #974.
Conan Compare
In 2017 they stood at #968 and #1210 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #1683 and #1284.
Tommy Compare
In 2019 they stood at #328 and #378 in Northern Ireland · Boys; by 2020 that had become #392 and #16.
Derek Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1272 and #1407 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1460 and #1108.

Moved the opposite way to Kelvin

Aaron Compare
Between 1972 and 2022 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Kelvin went from #254 to #779 while Aaron went from #194 to #62.
Adam Compare
Between 1972 and 2022 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Kelvin went from #254 to #779 while Adam went from #158 to #22.
Alex Compare
Between 1972 and 2022 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Kelvin went from #254 to #779 while Alex went from #279 to #24.
Alexander Compare
Between 1972 and 2022 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Kelvin went from #254 to #779 while Alexander went from #143 to #40.

Moved the same way as Kelvin

Adrian Compare
Between 1972 and 2022 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Kelvin went from #254 to #779 and Adrian from #50 to #225.
Alfred Compare
Between 1972 and 2022 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Kelvin went from #254 to #779 and Alfred from #219 to #657.
Denis Compare
Between 1972 and 2022 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Kelvin went from #254 to #779 and Denis from #35 to #178.
Edward Compare
Between 1972 and 2022 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Kelvin went from #254 to #779 and Edward from #21 to #112.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1954 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #78 in New Zealand in 1968. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Kelvin

Kelvin at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kelvin across 5 official records

Kelvin by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Kelvin appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1950s

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Kelvin and the names beside it

Kelvin moved ahead of

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Kelvin at a glance

Kelvin across 5 official records

Kelvin by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Kelvin appears in

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Kelvin

Kelvin and the names beside it

Kelvin moved ahead of

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