Corwin
Corwin was given to 23 boys in 2025, #4,423 among boys’ names; 4,353 Americans have been recorded with it since 1900 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,380 Americans named Corwin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (78% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 21 and 52.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Corwin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Corwin?
#4,423 among boys’ names, 2025
Corwin fell from #2,774 in 2015 to #4,423 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 22.4 to 13.5 per million.
96 babies in 1988, the peak
Corwin peaked in 1988, when 96 boys were given it, #987 among boys’ names. The 23 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #4,423 | 13.5 |
| 2024 | 24 | #4,340 | 13.9 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,020 | 15.8 |
| 2022 | 14 | #6,207 | 8.0 |
| 2021 | 28 | #3,827 | 16.0 |
| 2020 | 27 | #3,835 | 15.6 |
| 2019 | 26 | #4,024 | 14.5 |
| 2018 | 31 | #3,546 | 17.1 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,077 | 20.5 |
| 2016 | 41 | #2,894 | 21.6 |
Every recorded year (117)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 43 | #2,774 | 22.4 |
| 2014 | 42 | #2,815 | 21.9 |
| 2013 | 55 | #2,306 | 29.1 |
| 2012 | 51 | #2,457 | 26.9 |
| 2011 | 45 | #2,669 | 23.7 |
| 2010 | 57 | #2,266 | 29.7 |
| 2009 | 55 | #2,355 | 27.7 |
| 2008 | 56 | #2,329 | 27.4 |
| 2007 | 69 | #2,019 | 33.2 |
| 2006 | 44 | #2,666 | 21.4 |
| 2005 | 57 | #2,131 | 28.5 |
| 2004 | 40 | #2,649 | 20.2 |
| 2003 | 66 | #1,798 | 33.4 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,093 | 26.3 |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,086 | 25.7 |
| 2000 | 61 | #1,781 | 31.1 |
| 1999 | 49 | #1,967 | 25.5 |
| 1998 | 49 | #1,961 | 25.6 |
| 1997 | 47 | #1,931 | 24.9 |
| 1996 | 63 | #1,576 | 33.3 |
| 1995 | 63 | #1,507 | 33.1 |
| 1994 | 66 | #1,450 | 34.2 |
| 1993 | 72 | #1,339 | 36.7 |
| 1992 | 83 | #1,233 | 41.6 |
| 1991 | 86 | #1,190 | 42.6 |
| 1990 | 79 | #1,235 | 38.5 |
| 1989 | 96 | #1,061 | 48.0 |
| 1988 | 96 | #987 | 50.1 |
| 1987 | 85 | #1,031 | 45.5 |
| 1986 | 47 | #1,458 | 25.5 |
| 1985 | 34 | #1,764 | 18.4 |
| 1984 | 42 | #1,484 | 23.3 |
| 1983 | 36 | #1,633 | 20.1 |
| 1982 | 50 | #1,321 | 27.6 |
| 1981 | 51 | #1,295 | 28.5 |
| 1980 | 50 | #1,325 | 28.0 |
| 1979 | 55 | #1,244 | 31.9 |
| 1978 | 50 | #1,274 | 30.5 |
| 1977 | 50 | #1,254 | 30.4 |
| 1976 | 42 | #1,381 | 26.8 |
| 1975 | 46 | #1,260 | 29.5 |
| 1974 | 36 | #1,440 | 22.9 |
| 1973 | 45 | #1,232 | 28.9 |
| 1972 | 64 | #1,008 | 39.5 |
| 1971 | 54 | #1,112 | 30.5 |
| 1970 | 72 | #940 | 38.7 |
| 1969 | 68 | #923 | 38.0 |
| 1968 | 45 | #1,120 | 25.9 |
| 1967 | 31 | #1,368 | 17.8 |
| 1966 | 35 | #1,285 | 19.6 |
| 1965 | 29 | #1,433 | 15.6 |
| 1964 | 32 | #1,385 | 16.1 |
| 1963 | 31 | #1,405 | 15.3 |
| 1962 | 28 | #1,482 | 13.5 |
| 1961 | 47 | #1,148 | 22.1 |
| 1960 | 38 | #1,274 | 17.8 |
| 1959 | 41 | #1,213 | 19.2 |
| 1958 | 41 | #1,208 | 19.3 |
| 1957 | 42 | #1,201 | 19.5 |
| 1956 | 33 | #1,338 | 15.6 |
| 1955 | 29 | #1,424 | 14.1 |
| 1954 | 38 | #1,215 | 18.6 |
| 1953 | 26 | #1,484 | 13.2 |
| 1952 | 24 | #1,554 | 12.3 |
| 1951 | 17 | #1,849 | 9.0 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,043 | 7.8 |
| 1949 | 17 | #1,835 | 9.6 |
| 1948 | 19 | #1,719 | 10.8 |
| 1947 | 21 | #1,660 | 11.5 |
| 1946 | 19 | #1,647 | 11.7 |
| 1945 | 15 | #1,791 | 11.1 |
| 1944 | 18 | #1,640 | 13.2 |
| 1943 | 21 | #1,537 | 14.7 |
| 1942 | 25 | #1,389 | 18.1 |
| 1941 | 22 | #1,459 | 17.9 |
| 1940 | 18 | #1,642 | 15.5 |
| 1939 | 21 | #1,461 | 19.0 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,004 | 11.7 |
| 1937 | 24 | #1,376 | 22.5 |
| 1936 | 19 | #1,553 | 18.3 |
| 1935 | 20 | #1,550 | 19.2 |
| 1934 | 18 | #1,671 | 17.4 |
| 1933 | 19 | #1,602 | 19.2 |
| 1932 | 17 | #1,789 | 16.3 |
| 1931 | 15 | #1,951 | 14.4 |
| 1930 | 15 | #1,984 | 13.7 |
| 1929 | 17 | #1,864 | 15.8 |
| 1928 | 16 | #1,979 | 14.4 |
| 1927 | 19 | #1,818 | 16.9 |
| 1926 | 20 | #1,738 | 18.0 |
| 1925 | 28 | #1,398 | 25.1 |
| 1924 | 30 | #1,360 | 26.5 |
| 1923 | 23 | #1,606 | 21.0 |
| 1922 | 26 | #1,477 | 23.9 |
| 1921 | 21 | #1,719 | 19.1 |
| 1920 | 28 | #1,390 | 26.3 |
| 1919 | 25 | #1,456 | 25.5 |
| 1918 | 19 | #1,774 | 18.7 |
| 1917 | 27 | #1,334 | 29.2 |
| 1916 | 20 | #1,602 | 22.5 |
| 1915 | 25 | #1,347 | 29.5 |
| 1914 | 22 | #1,274 | 33.6 |
| 1913 | 17 | #1,268 | 33.2 |
| 1912 | 9 | #1,770 | 20.9 |
| 1910 | 6 | #1,459 | 30.9 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,246 | 39.0 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,198 | 39.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Corwin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Corwin has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 117 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Corwin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Corwin, and how old are they?
3,380 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 78% of the 4,353 Americans ever recorded as Corwin. The median Corwin alive today is 36 years old; half are between 21 and 52.
The 2020 Census counted 3,034 people named Corwin (23 women and girls, 3,011 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,391 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 67 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 381 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 683 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 998 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 833 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 416 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Corwin born?
The states with the most babies named Corwin are California, Texas and Ohio, with 62% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 200 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 121 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 98 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 59 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 37 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 32 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Washington | 17 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Louisiana | 16 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Arizona | 15 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Iowa | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Corwin with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 4,826 babies since 1880, Corwin is the most given (90% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 23 babies (100%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Corwin
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Corwin and names like it
- Compare Corwin and CorwynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sCorwin peaked in 1988.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Corwin since 1910.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Corwin.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Corwin alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.