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Baby name
Marvin
Boy
Origin of the name
Marvin is usually explained as a form of the Welsh Merfyn.
Classic name
254,192births since 1880
1920sgeneration
No. 46rank at its peak, in 1928
Where babies named Marvin are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Marvin is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Marvin is most common in South Dakota (2.8 times), North Dakota (2.8) and Nebraska (2.2), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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