girls:
1.2k births since 1894
#4527 (21st percentile)
boys:
245.9k births since 1880
#152 (97th percentile)
overall:
247.1k births since 1880
#320 (96th percentile)
The name Edwin is the #320 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 247,070 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 95.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 95.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #152 (96.7% percentile) for all time with 245,879 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,527 (20.8% percentile) for all time with 1,191 births since 1894.
Edwin has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1894 for girls).
The name Edwin has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Edwin reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 90.6% percentile (ranked #52) with 3,401 births per million. The name was most common in 1915, with 3,577 births per million (ranked 89.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2008, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Edwin ranks #361 for boys (60.4% percentile) with 450 births per million, which is 12.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Edwin reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 5.0% percentile (ranked #573) with 28 births per million. The name was most common in 1927, with 28 births per million (ranked 5.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2008.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Edwin".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Edwin. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 86.5% confident that Edwin is pronounced as EHD-wihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EHD-wuhn, at 13.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like EH1 D W IH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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