Kevinismus
German, noun/kɛviˈnɪsmʊs/
Kevinismus is spelled K-E-V-I-N-I-S-M-U-S (10 letters) and appears about once in every 74 million words in written German, the 535,730th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kevinismus is a German masculine noun meaning “Kevinism, the social phenomenon that the working and uneducated classes tend to prefer foreign, especially English, given names, which has…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “ironische Bezeichnung für das Auftreten ungewöhnlicher, nicht deutsch klingender Vornamen in deutschen…”.
What does Kevinismus mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineKevinism, the social phenomenon that the working and uneducated classes tend to prefer foreign, especially English, given names, which has led to generally low prestige of these names in German-speaking Europe (in contrast to the usually high prestige of the English language)
- 2
masculinean instance of such naming
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ironische Bezeichnung für das Auftreten ungewöhnlicher, nicht deutsch klingender Vornamen in deutschen Familien ohne erkennbaren Migrationshintergrund
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Kevinismus
- Kevinismen plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Kevinismus?
- /kɛviˈnɪsmʊs/
- [kɛviˈnɪsmʊs]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Kevinismus in German?
Kevinismus appears about once in every 74 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).