Edwyn
Edwyn was given to 14 boys in 2025, #6,210 among boys’ names; 722 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Edwyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Edwyn?
#6,210 among boys’ names, 2025
Edwyn rose from #6,425 in 2015 to #6,210 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 6.8 to 8.2 per million.
49 babies in 2006, the peak
Edwyn peaked in 2006, when 49 boys were given it, #2,485 among boys’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #6,210 | 8.2 |
| 2024 | 19 | #5,110 | 11.0 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,427 | 5.3 |
| 2022 | 15 | #5,936 | 8.6 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,417 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 6 | #10,991 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 15 | #5,894 | 8.4 |
| 2018 | 20 | #4,787 | 11.0 |
| 2017 | 12 | #6,803 | 6.5 |
| 2016 | 18 | #5,182 | 9.5 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #6,425 | 6.8 |
| 2014 | 29 | #3,637 | 15.1 |
| 2013 | 17 | #5,233 | 9.0 |
| 2012 | 24 | #4,166 | 12.7 |
| 2011 | 25 | #4,017 | 13.2 |
| 2010 | 37 | #3,092 | 19.3 |
| 2009 | 31 | #3,500 | 15.6 |
| 2008 | 29 | #3,669 | 14.2 |
| 2007 | 42 | #2,830 | 20.2 |
| 2006 | 49 | #2,485 | 23.8 |
| 2005 | 25 | #3,743 | 12.5 |
| 2004 | 28 | #3,384 | 14.1 |
| 2003 | 25 | #3,549 | 12.7 |
| 2002 | 18 | #4,363 | 9.3 |
| 2001 | 18 | #4,339 | 9.3 |
| 2000 | 13 | #5,366 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 15 | #4,595 | 7.8 |
| 1998 | 7 | #7,816 | 3.7 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,698 | 2.7 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,285 | 5.8 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,188 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 9 | #5,892 | 4.6 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,254 | 2.5 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,838 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,604 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,644 | 2.8 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,136 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,116 | 3.8 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,667 | 3.4 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,435 | 3.3 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,366 | 3.3 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,613 | 2.9 |
| 1954 | 7 | #3,241 | 3.4 |
| 1947 | 5 | #3,890 | 2.7 |
| 1940 | 7 | #2,942 | 6.0 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,672 | 4.7 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,161 | 6.7 |
| 1925 | 9 | #2,987 | 8.1 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,314 | 7.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Edwyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Edwyn has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Edwyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Edwyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 669 Americans named Edwyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 12 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 613 people named Edwyn (13 women and girls, 600 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 604 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Edwyn?
Edwyn is a less common spelling of Edwin: SSA has recorded 722 Edwyn and 248,744 Edwin since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 249,546 babies since 1880, Edwyn is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 812 babies (1.7%), 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 Edwyn
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 Edwyn and names like it
- Compare Edwyn and EdwinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sEdwyn peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Edwyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Edwyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Edwyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.