78%RatingSave Gender Masculine Usage English Pronounced Pron. /ˈkɛl.vɪn/ [key·simplify] Meaning & History From the name of a Scottish river, perhaps meaning "narrow water". As a title it was borne by the Irish-Scottish physicist William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907), who acquired his title from the river. PopularityDetails Last ranked #99 in 1963 Australia (NSW) Last ranked #155 in 2000 Brazil (by decade) Last ranked #968 in 2017 England and Wales Last ranked #493 in 2008 France Last ranked #474 in 2010 Netherlands Last ranked #95 in 1974 New Zealand Last ranked #78 in 2010 Puerto Rico Last ranked #963 in 2023 United States People think this name isRate·Details classic mature formal upper class wholesome strong refined strange Categories Black Butler characters, educators, measurements, Path to Nowhere characters, rivers, scientists, sizes, Sons of the Forest characters, water, wet, writers