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Anwen

#10,178 in 2025Girls' name

Very beautiful

Anwen has been given to 188 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #10,178 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Anwen, 2025

1 in 368,000

Anwen over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anwen: meaning, origin, and history

Very beautiful

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Anwen means

Anwen means “very beautiful”.

Origin, language, and formation

Anwen is used in Welsh.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Welsh, Anwen is pronounced /ˈanwɛn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 188 girls were recorded with the name Anwen between 1998 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2004; its best national rank was #6,517 in 2004.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,997 in 2015 to #10,178 in 2025.

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 Anwen?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,178
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anwen 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 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anwen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anwens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anwen was born before 2011 — so the typical Anwen is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
43.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
188
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 43.1% of all recorded uses (81).

Is Anwen 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
+168
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,181
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.75×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2004 (18)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,517
2004

Spellings of Anwen

Anwen is not the most common spelling — Ann is, with 47.0% against Anwen's 0.02%.

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.

Anwen around the world

Where Anwen 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
    #1,051
    in 2025
  • France
    2006–2016
    #5,429
    in 2016
  • Canada
    2004–2022
    #3,322
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    2010–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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.

Anwen by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,178
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#6,517
2004
Peak year
2004
18 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
188
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Anwen

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

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Sibling names for Anwen

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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