as a First Name
From the French surname, used as a given name among Nonconformists in honour of the French Protestant theologian Jean Calvin (1509–64). The surname meant originally ‘little bald one’, from a diminutive of calve, a Norman and Picard form of French chauve ‘bald’. (The theologian was born in Noyon, Picardy.) Today the name possibly owes its popularity as much to the New York fashion designer Calvin Klein as to the theologian.
| 441st in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 107,883
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 178,514
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- Hawaii
- has the most people named Calvin per capita
- 1924
- marked the height of its popularity
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