girls:
19 births since 1925
#5697 (0th percentile)
boys:
702 births since 1913
#3885 (15th percentile)
overall:
721 births since 1913
#7018 (9th percentile)
The name Alwyn is the #7,018 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 721 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 9.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 9.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,885 (15.2% percentile) for all time with 702 births since 1913. For girls, it ranks #5,697 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 19 births since 1925.
Alwyn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (1913 for boys and 1925 for girls). Birth data for Alwyn is available in 73 out of the 111 years between 1913 and 2023 (73 years for boys and 3 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Alwyn has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Alwyn reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 3.0% percentile (ranked #515) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 1918, with 20 births per million (ranked 3.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Alwyn ranks #903 for boys (0.9% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 35.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Alwyn reached its peak popularity in 1925, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #611) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1925, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alwyn".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Alwyn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 69.0% confident that Alwyn is pronounced as AL-wihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AWL-wihn, at 19.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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