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Godwin

#5,948 in 2025Boys' name

God's friend

Godwin has been given to 578 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #5,948 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Godwin, 2025

1 in 221,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Godwin: meaning, origin, and history

God's friend

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Godwin means

Godwin means “God's friend”, associated with Godwine.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Old English Godwine (“God's friend”). The component -win is from Old English wine (“friend”). The second meaning is named after Michael Wayne Godwin (born 1956), American attorney and author.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Godwin (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Godwin is used in English.

Godwin comes through Old English Godwine and Old English wine.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 578 boys were recorded with the name Godwin between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 22 in 2011; its best national rank was #3,130 in 1983.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,996 in 2020 to #5,948 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,135 in 2015 to #5,948 in 2025.

How common is Godwin?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 114,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,948
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Godwin 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Godwin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Godwins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Godwin was born before 2006 — so the typical Godwin is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
28.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
62.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
568
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Choose a decade

2010s — 28.9% of all recorded uses (167).

Is Godwin 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
+338
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,048
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−813
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.83×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
68.2%
Peak was 2011 (22)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,130
1983

Spellings of Godwin

Godwin is not the most common spelling — Edwin is, with 93.1% against Godwin's 0.22%.

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 Godwin is used

Across 1910–2025, Godwin was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,220,640 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Godwin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Godwin around the world

Where Godwin 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
    #2,269
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2001–2014
    #715
    in 2014
  • France
    1991–2025
    #5,124
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1999–2021
    #2,989
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1964–1964
    #557
    in 1964

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Godwin by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,948
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,048
Best rank ever
#3,130
1983
Peak year
2011
22 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
578
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Godwin

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

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Sibling names for Godwin

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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