Erwin

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Erwin boys named Erwin

By the numbers

Total US births

21,262

Estimated living today

8,000

Median age today

50

Peak year

1918

Best rank

233rd

Rank in 2025

2,390th

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

49 / 21,213

How old the living Erwins are

born that year still alive today

Of the 21,262 babies given the name since 1880, about 8,000 are alive — 38 in every hundred. Roughly 1,100 of them are children and 2,500 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1975 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 Germanic languages

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Erwins

• Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961)Austrian physicist
• Erwin Rommel (1891–1944)German field marshal
• Erwin Neher (born 1944)German biophysicist
• Erwin Panofsky (1892–1968)German art historian
• Erwin von Witzleben (1881–1944)German field marshal
• Erwin Koeman (born 1961)Dutch association football player and manager
• Erwin Piscator (1893–1966)German theatre director
• Erwin Chargaff (1905–2002)Ukrainian-born biochemist who emigrated to the United States

People named Erwin with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Erwin is most common

• NY2,148
• CA1,879
• IL1,482
• TX1,290
• MI1,132
• WI1,122
• PA678
• MN642
• OH593
• MO422

Relative to how many babies each state records, Erwin is most concentrated in Wisconsin (3.7×), North Dakota (3.7×), South Dakota (3.6×), Nebraska (2.4×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1918

The most popular boys’ names the year Erwin peaked:

• John
• William
• James
• Robert
• Charles
• George

All the names of 1918

Erwin elsewhere

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.

Erwin: births by region

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.

Erwin: rank by region

In 2005, Erwin was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

In 2025, Erwin was given 2 times or more in 2 regions of Poland.

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.

Erwin by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Erwin 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.

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 Erwin lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 373 men called Erwin 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

Listed in 15 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 37 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.