Wyn
Wyn is given to both girls and boys: 9 girls and 16 boys were given it in 2025 (#10,868 among girls’ names and #5,839 among boys’, #9,062 among all names counting both); 201 Americans have been recorded with it since 1944 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Wyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Wyn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Wyn is “a male given name from Welsh.”
From Welsh gwyn.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Wyn?
#5,839 among boys’ names, 2025
Wyn rose from #8,005 in 2015 to #5,839 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 5.2 to 9.4 per million.
25 babies in 2025, the peak
Wyn peaked in 2025, when 25 babies were given it (16 boys, #5,839 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 10 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,868 | 16 | #5,839 |
| 2024 | under 5 | 10 | #8,274 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 9 | #8,874 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 18 | #5,427 | |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,533 | 12 | #7,067 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,985 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 9 | #8,845 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 10 | #8,121 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 6 | #12,105 | |
| 2015 | under 5 | 10 | #8,005 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | under 5 | 5 | #13,967 | |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,735 | 5 | #14,130 |
| 2010 | under 5 | 6 | #12,145 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 5 | #14,516 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 5 | #4,585 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 5 | #4,615 | |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,309 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,235 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 5 | #4,498 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 6 | #3,934 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 5 | #4,392 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 7 | #3,448 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 5 | #4,185 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 5 | #3,901 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Wyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 201 Americans recorded as Wyn, 18% are girls and 82% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Wyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Wyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 184 Americans named Wyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 356 people named Wyn (150 women and girls, 206 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 105 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Wyn rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 4,887 babies since 1880, Wyn is the third most given (4.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 25 of their 257 babies (9.7%), the second most given that year.
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 Wyn
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 Wyn and names like it
- Compare Wyn and WynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sWyn peaked in 2025.
- Welsh namesWiktionary’s origin for Wyn: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Wyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Wyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with WMost given first.