Meaning and history
This name comes from a Scottish river, perhaps meaning “narrow water.” It was later used as a title by the Irish-Scottish physicist William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824–1907), who took his title from the river.
20062006: 632 births, rank #434
2007: 623 births, rank #448
2008: 606 births, rank #460
2009: 572 births, rank #479
2010: 497 births, rank #520
20112011: 465 births, rank #546
2012: 474 births, rank #549
2013: 412 births, rank #611
2014: 366 births, rank #688
2015: 399 births, rank #652
20162016: 336 births, rank #728
2017: 328 births, rank #727
2018: 281 births, rank #805
2019: 317 births, rank #752
2020: 242 births, rank #922
20212021: 254 births, rank #905
2022: 254 births, rank #908
2023: 232 births, rank #966
2024: 201 births, rank #1,082
20252025: 214 births, rank #1,034
Kelvin moved from #911 to #967 for boys between 2022 and 2023. Its highest annual birth count came in 1961, with 1,370 births.