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Uwe

Boys' name

Possibly sword

Uwe has been given to 30 babies in the U.S. since 1962. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1964, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Uwe, 1969

1 in 695,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Uwe: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly sword

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Uwe means

Uwe may mean “sword”, associated with agil-.

Origin, language, and formation

Uwe is used in German.

Pronunciation and spelling

In German, Uwe is pronounced /ˈuːvə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 30 boys were recorded with the name Uwe between 1962 and 1969. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1964; its best national rank was #3,268 in 1964.

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 Uwe?

Uwe had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1969, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1969
1 in 695,000
5 of 3,475,126 births
Among boys only
1 in 358,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1969
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
481,756 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Uwe 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 1969 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 481,756 children born in 1969 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Uwe. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Uwes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Uwe was born before 1964 — so the typical Uwe is around 61 today.

Median birth year
1964
About 61 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
30
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (30).

Is Uwe 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1964 (8)
Years since peak
61
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,268
1964

Where Uwe is used

Across 1910–2025, Uwe was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.

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

Uwe around the world

Where Uwe 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.

  • France
    1943–1944
    #611
    in 1944
  • South Australia
    1953–1968
    #359
    in 1968

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Uwe by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,268
1964
Peak year
1964
8 that year
First recorded
1962
Last recorded
1969
All-time count
30
Count in 2025
Under 5

Sibling names for Uwe

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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