Kevin
From Celtic, meaning "handsome birth". Around 5,700 Polish men carry it, and it stays uncommon: meeting one is memorable, and it has gone to boys almost without exception.
Kevin Pronunciation
What Kevin means
Where Kevin comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Kevin began as the Irish name Caoimhín. It joins the Old Irish word cóem, handsome or gentle, to gein, birth. Read the two parts together and you get handsome birth, the sense the name still carries in English.
The oldest famous bearer is Saint Kevin of Glendalough, a monk who settled in the Wicklow mountains in the sixth century and founded a monastery beside two dark lakes. His fame kept Caoimhín alive in Ireland for a long time. English speakers later smoothed the Irish spelling into Kevin, and by the middle of the twentieth century the name had travelled far past Ireland.
It has no Polish diminutives. In a Warsaw school register a Kevin sits among the Jakubs and the Szymons, an import that keeps its Celtic root whole. The name means what it always meant, handsome birth.
How many people are named Kevin
1 in 3751 men in Poland is named Kevin. 5,695 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #464 among male names.
Kevin's popularity over time
47 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #363 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Where parents choose Kevin
Kevin is most popular in Opole, 136% above the national average (16 boys born 2019–2025), followed by West Pomeranian (+93%) and Pomeranian (+80%). It is least common in Lesser Poland and Masovian, 58% and 50% below average respectively.
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Opole
+136%1 in 2,881 babies
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West Pomeranian
+93%1 in 3,518 babies
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Pomeranian
+80%1 in 3,777 babies
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Lesser Poland
−58%1 in 16,208 babies
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Masovian
−50%1 in 13,626 babies
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Subcarpathian
−49%1 in 13,396 babies
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Opole+136% 16 born1 in 2,881 babies+136%
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West Pomeranian+93% 24 born1 in 3,518 babies+93%
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Pomeranian+80% 39 born1 in 3,777 babies+80%
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Lubusz+78% 13 born1 in 3,820 babies+78%
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Silesian+43% 48 born1 in 4,741 babies+43%
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Lower Silesian+30% 30 born1 in 5,238 babies+30%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian+30% 21 born1 in 5,209 babies+30%
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Greater Poland+20% 38 born1 in 5,664 babies+20%
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Podlaskie+14% 11 born1 in 5,981 babies+14%
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Łódź−25% 14 born1 in 9,051 babies−25%
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Warmian-Masurian−34% 7 born1 in 10,256 babies−34%
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Lublin−47% 8 born1 in 12,834 babies−47%
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Subcarpathian−49% 9 born1 in 13,396 babies−49%
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Masovian−50% 26 born1 in 13,626 babies−50%
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Lesser Poland−58% 14 born1 in 16,208 babies−58%
Kevin as a middle name
Kevin is a first name for 5,695 men in Poland and a middle name for another 772, an 88/12 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 255th, between Eliasz (795) and Vincent (768).
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#253 Kryspin800
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#254 Eliasz795
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#255 Kevin772
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#256 Vincent768
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#257 Oliwer763