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Corwin

#4,423 in 2025Boys' name

Leather

Corwin has been given to 4,353 babies in the U.S. since 1900. In 2025 it ranked #4,423 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1988, with 96 recorded.

Babies named Corwin, 2025

1 in 144,000

Corwin over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Corwin: meaning, origin, and history

Leather

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Corwin means

Corwin means “leather”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,353 boys were recorded with the name Corwin between 1900 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 96 in 1988; its best national rank was #923 in 1969.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,835 in 2020 to #4,423 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,774 in 2015 to #4,423 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.

How common is Corwin?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 144,000
23 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 74,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,423
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
99,910 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Corwin 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 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Corwin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Corwins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Corwin was born before 1984 — so the typical Corwin is around 41 today.

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
15.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
24.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,568
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 15.1% of all recorded uses (657).

Is Corwin 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
−83
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−588
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,649
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.53×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
24.0%
Peak was 1988 (96)
Years since peak
37
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#923
1969

Spellings of Corwin

Corwin is not the most common spelling — Colin is, with 34.0% against Corwin's 1.1%.

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 Corwin is used

Across 1910–2025, Corwin was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 172,501 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 100,000
  4. 4Michigan1 in 100,000
  5. 5Ohio1 in 100,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 100,000
  7. 7Washington1 in 100,000
  8. 8Florida1 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. Corwin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Corwin around the world

Where Corwin 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
    2000–2007
    #3,589
    in 2007
  • France
    1991–2013
    #3,754
    in 2013
  • Canada
    1991–2019
    #2,583
    in 2019

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Corwin by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,423
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 588
Best rank ever
#923
1969
Peak year
1988
96 that year
First recorded
1900
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,353
Count in 2025
23

Names similar to Corwin

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

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Names with a curve like Corwin

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Corwin, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

FerminVidalEugenioLavellClementeHomeroWillyDelvinReymundoHoracioEsequielDemetrio

Sibling names for Corwin

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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