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Elwyn

#6,559 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Alvin

Elwyn has been given to 3,336 babies in the U.S. since 1893. In 2025 it ranked #6,559 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1924, with 104 recorded.

Babies named Elwyn, 2025

1 in 255,000

Elwyn over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Elwyn: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Alvin

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Elwyn means

Elwyn is a variant of Alvin.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Elwyn → Alvin. The family’s meaning is “elf + friend”, recorded in English with the source elements ælf and wine.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alvin.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,231 boys were recorded with the name Elwyn between 1893 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 104 in 1924; its best national rank was #595 in 1912.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,080 in 2015 to #6,559 in 2025.

In the United States, 105 girls were recorded with the name Elwyn between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1917; its best national rank was #3,108 in 1912.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #17,231 in 2015 to #15,583 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 Elwyn?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 131,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,559
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Elwyn 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elwyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Elwyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Elwyn was born before 1931 — so the typical Elwyn is around 94 today.

Median birth year
1931
About 94 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
27.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
682
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Choose a decade

1920s — 27.5% of all recorded uses (890).

Is Elwyn 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
+1,366
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,521
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.17×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
12.5%
Peak was 1924 (104)
Years since peak
101
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#595
1912

Spellings of Elwyn

Elwyn is not the most common spelling — Edwin is, with 59.1% against Elwyn's 0.77%.

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 Elwyn is used

Across 1910–2025, Elwyn was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 123,481 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 33,333
  2. 2Iowa1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 100,000
  4. 4Kansas1 in 100,000
  5. 5Maine1 in 100,000
  6. 6Nebraska1 in 100,000
  7. 7New Hampshire1 in 100,000
  8. 8New York1 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. Elwyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Elwyn around the world

Where Elwyn 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
    1998–2025
    #1,359
    in 2025
  • France
    1999–2025
    #5,717
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2016–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1945–1961
    #561
    in 1961

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Elwyn

People whose public names include Elwyn, 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.

Elwyn by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,559
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#595
1912
Peak year
1924
104 that year
First recorded
1893
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,231
Count in 2025
13

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,583
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#3,108
1912
Peak year
1917
7 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
105
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Elwyn

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

ElwinElwoodRowynAlwynEdwynSelwynDelwynOwynLlewynBowynElwardMerwynDarwynCorwynArwynCarwynGwynElwayWynBerwynLewynEllwynElwellColwyn

Names with a curve like Elwyn

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

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Sibling names for Elwyn

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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