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Aldwin

Boys' name

Old + friend

Aldwin has been given to 134 babies in the U.S. since 1951. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2008, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Aldwin, 2021

1 in 678,000

Aldwin over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aldwin: meaning, origin, and history

Old + friend

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aldwin means

Aldwin means “old + friend”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Aldwin is used in Germanic.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 134 boys were recorded with the name Aldwin between 1951 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2008; its best national rank was #2,766 in 1955.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Aldwin?

Aldwin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 678,000
5 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only
1 in 350,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aldwin sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aldwin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aldwins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aldwin was born before 1985 — so the typical Aldwin is around 40 today.

Median birth year
1985
About 40 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
25.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
32.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
134
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 25.4% of all recorded uses (34).

Is Aldwin rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2008 (10)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,766
1955

Spellings of Aldwin

Aldwin is not the most common spelling — Edwin is, with 53.6% against Aldwin's 0.03%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Aldwin around the world

Where Aldwin ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2016–2016
    #4,810
    in 2016
  • France
    1987–2023
    #5,545
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1970–1970
    #540
    in 1970

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Aldwin by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,766
1955
Peak year
2008
10 that year
First recorded
1951
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
134
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Aldwin

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Aldwin

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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