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Derwin

#5,669 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Derwin has been given to 3,833 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #5,669 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1958, with 140 recorded.

Babies named Derwin, 2025

1 in 207,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Derwin: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Derwin means

Derwin is a given name.

The naming story behind Derwin

Wikidata records Derwin as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q31207182, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,833 boys were recorded with the name Derwin between 1916 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 140 in 1958; its best national rank was #638 in 1965.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,930 in 2020 to #5,669 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,755 in 2015 to #5,669 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 Derwin?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,669
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Derwin 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Derwin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Derwins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Derwin was born before 1968 — so the typical Derwin is around 57 today.

Median birth year
1968
About 57 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
30.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
14.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,555
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 30.3% of all recorded uses (1,160).

Is Derwin 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
+5,593
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,261
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−914
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.80×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.4%
Peak was 1958 (140)
Years since peak
67
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
45.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#638
1965

Spellings of Derwin

Derwin is not the most common spelling — Edwin is, with 35.6% against Derwin's 0.55%.

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 Derwin is used

Across 1910–2025, Derwin was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 12,500 boys, against 1 in 84,331 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 12,500
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 33,333
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 33,333
  4. 4District of Columbia1 in 50,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 50,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 50,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 50,000
  8. 8Alabama1 in 100,000

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. Derwin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Derwin around the world

Where Derwin 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.

  • Canada
    2011–2012
    #2,715
    in 2012
  • South Australia
    1982–1982
    #424
    in 1982

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Derwin

People whose public names include Derwin, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Derwin in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Derwin. Linked forms have their own page here.

DarvinDarwinDerwyn

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Derwin by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,669
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,261
Best rank ever
#638
1965
Peak year
1958
140 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,833
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Derwin

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

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Names with a curve like Derwin

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

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Sibling names for Derwin

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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