Anwyn

Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Anwyn has been given to 100 babies in the U.S. since 1998. 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 2006, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Anwyn, 2021

1 in 678,000

Anwyn over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Anwyn?

Anwyn 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 girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anwyn 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 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 Anwyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anwyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anwyn was born before 2010 — so the typical Anwyn is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
46.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
100
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 46.0% of all recorded uses (46).

Is Anwyn 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2006 (9)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,824
2000

Spellings of Anwyn

Anwyn is not the most common spelling — Ann is, with 83.3% against Anwyn'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.

Anwyn around the world

Where Anwyn 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
    2003–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2011–2011
    #3,211
    in 2011
  • South Australia
    1972–1972
    #722
    in 1972

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Anwyn 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
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Best rank ever
#10,824
2000
Peak year
2006
9 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
100
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Anwyn

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

Sibling names for Anwyn

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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