Berwyn

Boys' name

White top

Berwyn has been given to 249 babies in the U.S. since 1912. 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 1928, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Berwyn, 1969

1 in 496,000

Berwyn over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Berwyn: meaning, origin, and history

White top

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Berwyn means

Berwyn means “white top”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Berwyn is used in Welsh.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 249 boys were recorded with the name Berwyn between 1912 and 1969. Its highest annual count was 19 in 1928; its best national rank was #1,768 in 1928.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Berwyn?

Berwyn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1969, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1969: 1 in 496,000; 7 of 3,475,126 births
Among boys only: 1 in 255,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1969: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 344,112 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Berwyn 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 1969 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 344,112 children born in 1969 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Berwyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Berwyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Berwyn was born before 1930 — so the typical Berwyn is around 95 today.

Median birth year: 1930; About 95 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 37.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 24.1%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 48; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 37.3% of all recorded uses (93).

Is Berwyn 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 1928 (19)
Years since peak: 97; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 42.9% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,768; 1928

Spellings of Berwyn

Berwyn is not the most common spelling — Erwin is, with 37.5% against Berwyn's 0.44%.

Erwin37.5%21,213
Berry10.1%5,737
Derwin6.8%3,833
Merlyn6.0%3,410
Elwyn5.7%3,231
Kerwin4.4%2,470
Beryl4.1%2,338
Berton3.3%1,874

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 Berwyn is used

Across 1910–2025, Berwyn was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,180,443 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Illinois1 in —
2Pennsylvania1 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. Berwyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Berwyn around the world

Where Berwyn 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
2017–2022
#4,790
in 2022

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Berwyn 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: —
Best rank ever: #1,768; 1928
Peak year: 1928; 19 that year
First recorded: 1912
Last recorded: 1969
All-time count: 249
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Berwyn

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

Berish Bergen Bereket Berel Beren Berman Bernal Berlie Bertin Beric Bernis Bertis Berlin Berley Bertil Bertrum Bertel Llewyn Bowyn Carwyn Beryle Berle Berlyn Bertie

Sibling names for Berwyn

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

Edward Paul Charline Ardis Germaine Darline Marvel Richard

For a brother

Frances Jules Rolland Normand Laverne Jewel Carrol Napoleon

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