Edwin

Where Edwin comes from

Inherited from Old English Ēadwine, from Proto-West Germanic *Audawini, from Proto-Germanic *Audawiniz. Akin to Old Norse Auðun, Icelandic Auðunn, German Otwin, Norwegian Audun, and the Lombard king's name Audoin (French Ouen).
— Wiktionary's entry for Edwin
  • Old English
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #56 among boys — 309 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1889
    Edwin Hubble born
    American astronomer
  3. 1922
    Peak, #52
    3,827 babies named Edwin — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1965
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #157.
  5. 1970
    Edwin van der Sar born
    Dutch association football player
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Old English.
Namesakes
  • Edwin Hubble · American astronomer, 1889–1953
  • Edwin van der Sar · Dutch association football player, born 1970
  • Edwin McMillan · American physicist, 1907–1991
  • Edwin G. Krebs · American biochemist, 1918–2009
  • Edwin Howard Armstrong · American electrical engineer and inventor, 1890–1954

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.