Calvin Family History
- Calvin Name Meaning
- Southern French: nickname for a bald man, from a diminutive of Old Occitan calv ‘bald’ (from Latin calvus). Spanish (Calvín): from a regional variant of a diminutive of calvo ‘bald’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 279,740 Historical Documents with Calvin on Ancestry
- 93,081 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 67,671 Census and Voter Lists
- 12,699 Military Records
- 5,530 Immigration Records
- 100,759 Member Trees
Ready to discover your family story?
Simply start with yourself and we'll do the searching for you.
Number of Calvin families
 17 - 32  6 - 16 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Calvin families
|
6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Calvin census records
You can see how Calvin families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
from the New York Passengers List
Click on a place to view Calvin immigration records
The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry. You can find out where the majority of the Calvin families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival, and destination.
from the New York Passenger Lists
Click on a circle in the chart to view Calvin emigration records
You can find out when most of the Calvin families immigrated to the United States. You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival and destination.
from 1881 UK Census Data
Calvin census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Calvin ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
Did the Calvins fight in a war? Military records can tell you a lot
about your ancestors including birthplace, occupation and even physical descriptions.
×