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Boy · Old English
Eadwine
Say it: AY-ad-win-eh
Meaning
From Old English ead 'wealth, prosperity' and wine 'friend'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Borne by the first Christian king of Northumbria; revived as Edwin in the 19th century.
Its wave through time
No birth counts are recorded for this name in the records loaded here: it has been given to fewer than five babies a year, or not at all, since records began.
Through the ages
- The Early Middle Ages400 to 800
- The Viking and Anglo-Saxon Age700 to 1100
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Edwin
Famous bearers
- Edwin, king of Northumbria
- Edwin Hubble, American astronomer
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Where this comes from
- Anglo-Saxon charters, chronicles and church records
- Royal and noble genealogies
- Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
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