Boy · Old English
Edwin
Say it: ED-win
Meaning
From Old English Eadwine, ead 'riches, fortune' and wine 'friend'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
A Victorian revival of an Anglo-Saxon royal name.
Its wave through time
Timeless: in steady use for over a century
In the United States
- 244,381 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1915, about 1 in 269 boys
- 918 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The Viking and Anglo-Saxon Age700 to 1100
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
Famous bearers
- Edwin of Northumbria, king
- Edwin Hubble, astronomer
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Where this comes from
- Anglo-Saxon charters, chronicles and church records
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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