Given name & surname
Tevis
“one who is flamboyant”
Tevis is used as a given name and a surname. One American interpretation is “one who is flamboyant.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One American interpretation is “one who is flamboyant.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is American.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1912. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tevis through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 558
- 494 boys · 64 girls
- Most popular year
- 1977
- 22 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 7 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 22 in 1977. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 550 as a first name in 2020; 1,396 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.
Tevis’s family of names
Tevis has a related form in Tavish. Tevis has a related form in Tevas. Tevis has a related form in Teviss.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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