Edwin
About 248,744 American babies have been named Edwin since 1880, most of them around 1922. In 2025 it ranked 398th. About 130,000 Edwins are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 42.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Edwin boys named Edwin
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 248,744
- Estimated living today
- 130,000
- Median age today
- 42
- Peak year
- 1922
- Best rank
- 52nd
- Rank in 2025
- 398th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 1,191 / 247,553
How old the living Edwins are
born that year still alive today
Of the 248,744 babies given the name since 1880, about 130,000 are alive — 52 in every hundred. Roughly 22,000 of them are children and 34,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1983 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Old English
from Proto-West Germanic *Audawini, from Proto-Germanic *Audawiniz. Akin to Old Norse Auðun, Icelandic Auðunn, German Otwin, Norwegian Audun, and the Lombard king's name Audoin (French Ouen).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Edwins
- Edwin Hubble (1889–1953)American astronomer
- Edwin van der Sar (born 1970)Dutch association football player
- Edwin McMillan (1907–1991)American physicist
- Edwin G. Krebs (1918–2009)American biochemist
- Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890–1954)American electrical engineer and inventor
- Edwin Moses (born 1955)American track and field athlete
- Edwin Lutyens (1869–1944)British architect
- Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900)American landscape painter
People named Edwin with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Edwin is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Edwin is most concentrated in Hawaii (2.2×), North Dakota (1.8×), New York (1.7×), New Jersey (1.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1922
The most popular boys’ names the year Edwin peaked:
Edwin elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Edwin | 3,280 | 326th |
| England and Wales boys | Edwin | 1,996 | 412th |
| Norway boys | Edwin | 598 | 135th |
| Ireland boys | Edwin | 411 | 138th |
| Poland boys | Edwin | 226 birth registrations | 189th |
| Belgium boys | Edwin | 214 | 505th |
| Scotland boys | Edwin | 152 | 172nd |
| Switzerland boys | Edwin | 149 | 648th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Edwin | 9 | 305th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Edwin: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Edwin | 108 | 0.009% | 530th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Edwin | 41 | 0.009% | 361st |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Edwin is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.01% of children were given it – 31 of them.
Edwin: rank by region
In 2022, Edwin was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Edwin | 434 | 6 |
In 2025, Edwin was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wielkopolskie | Edwin | 248 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Edwin by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 23 | 314th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Edwin among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Edwin | 21,739 | 26,792 |
| Finland boys | Edwin | 439 | 774 |
| the Netherlands girls | Edwin | — | 73 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Edwin lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,855 men called Edwin were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soria | Edwin | 7 | 0.153 | 471 |
| Balears, Illes | Edwin | 90 | 0.145 | 550 |
| Madrid | Edwin | 453 | 0.133 | 491 |
| Palmas, Las | Edwin | 66 | 0.113 | 824 |
| Cuenca | Edwin | 11 | 0.109 | 632 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Edwin | 57 | 0.107 | 860 |
Listed in 43 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 9 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Edwin against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.