Meaning and history
From a Scots surname, a variant of Melville, Melvin has been used in America since the 19th century. It grew popular in the early 20th century, peaked in the late 1920s, and has declined steadily since then, closely paralleling the similarly sounding but unrelated names Marvin and Alvin.
20062006: 673 births, rank #423
2007: 633 births, rank #443
2008: 592 births, rank #467
2009: 535 births, rank #505
2010: 456 births, rank #556
20112011: 390 births, rank #614
2012: 393 births, rank #618
2013: 402 births, rank #617
2014: 386 births, rank #664
2015: 365 births, rank #687
20162016: 337 births, rank #727
2017: 328 births, rank #727
2018: 334 births, rank #718
2019: 314 births, rank #758
2020: 323 births, rank #752
20212021: 307 births, rank #798
2022: 300 births, rank #827
2023: 299 births, rank #820
2024: 277 births, rank #871
20252025: 243 births, rank #958
Melvin moved from #872 to #959 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1928, with 4,249 births.