Erwin

Where Erwin comes from

The dictionaries list Erwin as a given name — a male given name from the Germanic languages, of rare usage, variant of Irwin — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Germanic
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #442 among boys — 16 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1887
    Erwin Schrödinger born
    Austrian physicist
  3. 1891
    Erwin Rommel born
    German field marshal
  4. 1901
    Peak, #215
    63 babies named Erwin — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from the Germanic languages, of rare usage, variant of Irwin.
Namesakes
  • Erwin Schrödinger · Austrian physicist, 1887–1961
  • Erwin Rommel · German field marshal, 1891–1944
  • Erwin Neher · German biophysicist, born 1944
  • Erwin Panofsky · German art historian, 1892–1968
  • Erwin von Witzleben · German field marshal, 1881–1944

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.