Wyn

Where Wyn comes from

From Welsh gwyn.
— Wiktionary's entry for Wyn
  • Welsh
Along the way
  1. 1944
    First appearance
    #3,430 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1954
    Peak, #3,176
    7 babies named Wyn — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1957
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 2021
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Welsh.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Wyn hasn't yet.

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.