Edwin

What Edwin means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Edwin yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1922, with 3,827 babies; 798 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Edwin?

US: Falling: down from #312 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #456 in 2015, #412 now.

Biggest US share so far: 1915, when 3,151 boys got the name (#53 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 2,140 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,775 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 3,928 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in OR (1.06 per 1,000 boys), MD (1.05 per 1,000 boys), NM (0.92 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Edwin is #398 in the US and #412 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Edwin were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

If you like Edwin

Boys

• Edgar#486“rich + spear”^*
• Oscar#223Editor’s note Down from #181 in 2015 to #223 in 2025 in the US
• Trey#883Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1999, with 1,798 babies; 269 in 2025
• Alvin#838“elf + friend”^*
• Edward#224“wealth, riches + ward, guard”^*
• Harold#991“army + ruler, authority”^*

For a sister

• Angel#546Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2002, with 3,100 babies; 551 in 2025
• Destiny#635Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #186 in 2015, #635 in 2025
• Amber#520“ambergris”^*
• April#542“the month of the goddess Venus”^*
• Holly#416“wood, clearing, meadow”^*
• Faith#254Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #90 in 2015, #254 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under English, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Edwin’s. Rank is US 2025.