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Alwyn

#6,463 in 2025Boys' name

Noble + friend, through Alwin

Alwyn has been given to 743 babies in the U.S. since 1913. In 2025 it ranked #6,463 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Alwyn, 2025

1 in 255,000

Alwyn over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alwyn: meaning, origin, and history

Noble + friend, through Alwin

Old English

What Alwyn means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Alwyn is used in English and Welsh. Its origins include Old English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alwin and Alwen.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Welsh, Alwyn is pronounced /ˈal.ʊi̯n/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 724 boys were recorded with the name Alwyn between 1913 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 28 in 2021; its best national rank was #1,651 in 1918.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,992 in 2020 to #6,463 in 2025.

In the United States, 19 girls were recorded with the name Alwyn between 1925 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1925; its best national rank was #3,673 in 1925.

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.

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How common is Alwyn?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 131,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,463
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alwyn 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 2025 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alwyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alwyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alwyn was born before 1948 — so the typical Alwyn is around 77 today.

Median birth year
1948
About 77 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
16.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
346
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Choose a decade

1920s — 16.3% of all recorded uses (118).

Is Alwyn 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
+1,877
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−471
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
46.4%
Peak was 2021 (28)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
51.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,651
1918

Spellings of Alwyn

Alwyn is not the most common spelling — Alan is, with 35.9% against Alwyn's 0.07%.

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.

Where Alwyn is used

Across 1910–2025, Alwyn was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,337,241 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Alwyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Alwyn around the world

Where Alwyn 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
    1996–2025
    #2,014
    in 2025
  • France
    1987–2008
    #4,940
    in 2008
  • Canada
    2021–2021
    #1,987
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1944–2003
    #588
    in 2003

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

Alwyn by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,463
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 471
Best rank ever
#1,651
1918
Peak year
2021
28 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
724
Count in 2025
13

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,673
1925
Peak year
1925
8 that year
First recorded
1925
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
19
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Alwyn

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

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Sibling names for Alwyn

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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