Edvin
Edvin was given to 34 boys in 2025, #3,394 among boys’ names; 1,065 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,000 Americans named Edvin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 9 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Edvin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Edvin mean?
Wiktionary, Swedish section
Edvin is “a male given name from English”
Borrowed from English Edwin.
/ˈeːdvɪn/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swedish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Edvin?
#3,394 among boys’ names, 2025
Edvin rose from #4,008 in 2015 to #3,394 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 13.6 to 19.9 per million.
54 babies in 2006, the peak
Edvin peaked in 2006, when 54 boys were given it, #2,325 among boys’ names. The 34 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | #3,394 | 19.9 |
| 2024 | 18 | #5,290 | 10.4 |
| 2023 | 29 | #3,818 | 17.0 |
| 2022 | 30 | #3,710 | 17.2 |
| 2021 | 32 | #3,520 | 18.3 |
| 2020 | 25 | #4,045 | 14.5 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,154 | 20.6 |
| 2018 | 30 | #3,627 | 16.5 |
| 2017 | 32 | #3,463 | 17.3 |
| 2016 | 21 | #4,662 | 11.1 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #4,008 | 13.6 |
| 2014 | 25 | #4,040 | 13.0 |
| 2013 | 28 | #3,684 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 42 | #2,832 | 22.1 |
| 2011 | 22 | #4,399 | 11.6 |
| 2010 | 33 | #3,330 | 17.2 |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,005 | 19.7 |
| 2008 | 41 | #2,898 | 20.1 |
| 2007 | 46 | #2,660 | 22.2 |
| 2006 | 54 | #2,325 | 26.3 |
| 2005 | 32 | #3,184 | 16.0 |
| 2004 | 41 | #2,607 | 20.7 |
| 2003 | 29 | #3,211 | 14.7 |
| 2002 | 20 | #4,074 | 10.3 |
| 2001 | 33 | #2,818 | 17.0 |
| 2000 | 29 | #3,009 | 14.8 |
| 1999 | 24 | #3,299 | 12.5 |
| 1998 | 13 | #4,955 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 15 | #4,305 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 23 | #3,136 | 12.1 |
| 1995 | 13 | #4,591 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 14 | #4,366 | 7.2 |
| 1993 | 11 | #5,105 | 5.6 |
| 1992 | 11 | #4,973 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 11 | #4,855 | 5.4 |
| 1990 | 14 | #4,030 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 13 | #4,092 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,653 | 3.1 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,496 | 3.8 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,533 | 2.8 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,135 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,156 | 2.3 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,645 | 4.1 |
| 1933 | 5 | #3,798 | 5.0 |
| 1923 | 6 | #3,935 | 5.5 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,584 | 6.6 |
| 1919 | 6 | #3,849 | 6.1 |
| 1918 | 6 | #3,847 | 5.9 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,313 | 7.6 |
| 1915 | 5 | #3,990 | 5.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Edvin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Edvin has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Edvin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Edvin, and how old are they?
1,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 1,065 Americans ever recorded as Edvin. The median Edvin alive today is 18 years old; half are between 9 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 2,315 people named Edvin (8 women and girls, 2,307 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 848 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 123 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 505 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 364 |
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 Edvin born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #2,569 | 1.1× |
Where Edvin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Edvin is most over-represented in California: since 1915 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Edvin 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 249,809 babies since 1880, Edvin is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 34 of their 832 babies (4.1%), again the second 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 Edvin
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 Edvin and names like it
- Compare Edvin and EdwinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sEdvin peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Edvin since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for Edvin: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Edvin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Edvin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.