Tevin is a modern American name created in the 1980s on the model of Kevin and Devin; Kevin itself is Irish and means "handsome" or "of gentle birth". The name owes its popularity to the R&B singer Tevin Campbell, whose hits in the early 1990s gave it a boost in African American families. Tevin stood at number 804 in 2000, its last year in the top 1000 in this period, and has slipped from number 1367 in 2015 to number 2513 in 2025.