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Carwyn

#10,900 in 2025Boys' name

Love + blessed, through Carwyn

Carwyn has been given to 95 babies in the U.S. since 2012. In 2025 it ranked #10,900 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Carwyn, 2025

1 in 553,000

Carwyn over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Carwyn: meaning, origin, and history

Love + blessed, through Carwyn

Welsh

What Carwyn means

Carwyn belongs to the name family reached through Carwyn → Carwyn. Its meaning is “love + blessed”.

Origin, language, and formation

Carwyn is used in English and Welsh. Its origins include Welsh.

Carwyn comes through Welsh Carwyn.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Carwyn.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Carwyn is pronounced /ˈkɑɹ.wɪn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 95 boys were recorded with the name Carwyn between 2012 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2018; its best national rank was #7,206 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,182 in 2020 to #10,900 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #10,898 in 2015 to #10,900 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 Carwyn?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,900
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Carwyn 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Carwyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Carwyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Carwyn was born before 2018 — so the typical Carwyn is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
64.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
95
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 64.2% of all recorded uses (61).

Is Carwyn 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
+1,749
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,718
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
54.5%
Peak was 2018 (11)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,206
2018

Spellings of Carwyn

Carwyn is not the most common spelling — Carson is, with 49.4% against Carwyn's 0.04%.

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.

Carwyn around the world

Where Carwyn 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
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1976–1976
    #294
    in 1976
  • Canada
    2023–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Carwyn by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,900
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,718
Best rank ever
#7,206
2018
Peak year
2018
11 that year
First recorded
2012
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
95
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Carwyn

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

CarbonCareemCarioCarinCarlensCarronCarmiCarnieCarlenCarderCardenCarusoCarsinCarminCarolsCartelCarlynCaroldCariCardonCarmieCarlasCardaeCarnel

Sibling names for Carwyn

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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