Meaning & origin
What it means
Clavin goes back to Irish Mac Fhláimhín, meaning “son of Flaithimhín.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Irish Mac Fhláimhín (“son of Flaithimhín”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1924. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Clavin through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 116
- 116 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1961
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 1989. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 11 in 1961. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 145 as a first name in 2020; 639 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
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