Edwin
Edwin is ranked 382nd among boys in 2024 (850 births). Its best rank was 52nd, in 1919, 1922.
- Rank in 2024
- #382up 3 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 8500.05% of boys
- Peak year
- 19223,827 births
- Best rank
- #52first in 1919
- Since 1880
- 247,935people given the name
The story in the numbers
246,744 boys have been named Edwin in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 3,827 births — 0.35% of all boys recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 299 → 382).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1952, and the 1920s alone account for 14%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 62 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,191 girls have also been given it, 0.48% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Edwin | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 3,011 | |
| 1890s | 3,505 | |
| 1900s | 3,961 | |
| 1910s | 23,697 | |
| 1920s | 35,255 | |
| 1930s | 24,023 | |
| 1940s | 22,975 | |
| 1950s | 26,214 | |
| 1960s | 20,635 | |
| 1970s | 13,356 | |
| 1980s | 13,902 | |
| 1990s | 17,474 | |
| 2000s | 22,075 | |
| 2010s | 12,212 | |
| 2020s | 4,449 |
In 1922, its biggest year
Edwin was the 52nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1922 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1922.
Names that rose and fell with Edwin
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Edmondpeak 1920
- Harrispeak 1921
- Mahlonpeak 1919
- Irvinpeak 1923
- Edwardpeak 1924
- Louiepeak 2024
- Edmundpeak 1923
- Petepeak 1959
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.