Alwine

Girls' name

Noble, through Alwin

Alwine has been given to 25 babies in the U.S. since 1887. 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 1891, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Alwine, 1896

1 in 71,500

Alwine over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alwine: meaning, origin, and history

Noble, through Alwin

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alwine means

Alwine belongs to the name family reached through Alwine → Alwin. Its meaning is “noble”.

Origin, language, and formation

Alwine is used in German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alwin.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 25 girls were recorded with the name Alwine between 1887 and 1896. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1891; its best national rank was #941 in 1887.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Alwine?

Alwine had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1896, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1896: 1 in 71,500; 5 of 357,468 births
Among girls only: 1 in 47,600; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1896: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 49,557 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Alwine sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1896 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 49,557 children born in 1896 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alwine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alwines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alwine was born before 1891 — so the typical Alwine is around 134 today.

Median birth year: 1891; About 134 years old
Biggest decade: 1890s; 52.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1890s — 52.0% of all recorded uses (13).

Is Alwine 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1891 (8)
Years since peak: 134; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 28.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #941; 1887

Spellings of Alwine

Alwine is not the most common spelling — Alice is, with 53.6% against Alwine's <0.01%.

Alice53.6%588,147
Elaine24.0%262,890
Allie4.9%53,251
Alaina4.6%50,578
Alina4.1%45,387
Arline1.6%17,590
Aline1.3%14,668
Alvina0.96%10,502

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.

Alwine around the world

Where Alwine 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.

France
1904–1991
#2,581
in 1991

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Alwine by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #941; 1887
Peak year: 1891; 8 that year
First recorded: 1887
Last recorded: 1896
All-time count: 25
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Alwine

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

Lupine Alwina Soline Mclaine Kleine Edaline Narine Alwyn Yanine Kaline Addine Jonine Zeline Elline Maxxine Saline Radine Katine Elvine Darine Aleine Serine Faline Maline

Sibling names for Alwine

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

For a sister

Meta Bess Hulda Lulu Maud Maude Golda Lauretta

For a brother

Will Grover Garfield Dewey Gustave Waldo Orrin Winfield

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