Boy · Old English
Ecgwine
Say it: EDJ-win-eh
Meaning
From Old English ecg 'edge (of a sword)' and wine 'friend'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
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
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Egwin
Famous bearers
- St Ecgwine, bishop of Worcester and founder of Evesham Abbey
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Where this comes from
- Anglo-Saxon charters, chronicles and church records
- Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
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