Edvin

given name · Finnish · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Edvin is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Bolivia it is the 99th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Finnish and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Edvin är ett engelskt namn, sammansatt av fornengelskans ēad ’rikedom; egendom’ och wini ’vän’ (→ -vin).

rarermore common
  • ECEcuador1 in 259◐
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 525
  • SESweden1 in 530

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈271K ●

across 11 countries

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
492 ●

2.1M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 259 ◐

Ecuador

Spellings & scripts●

EdwinLatin · English●2.2M records
אדוויןHebrew · Hebrew●597 records
เอ็ดวินThai · Thai●172 records
ᲔდვინGeorgian · Georgian●66 records
에드윈Hangul · Korean●0 records

Locally spelled Edwin in US United States, PH Philippines, NL Netherlands and 19 more and Alvin in TH Thailand.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

recorded in Swedish

Edvin är ett engelskt namn, sammansatt av fornengelskans ēad ’rikedom; egendom’ och wini ’vän’ (→ -vin). Namnet har varit populärt under de senaste årtiondena med en topp runt 2010. I den rikssvenska almanackan 11 mars och i den finlandssvenska 9 mars.

Sources 1

  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Edvin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#286160,4311.6M rec.1 in 2.1K160KEdwin492
PH Philippines#108155,111144K rec.——Edwin142
PE Peru#296112,56311K rec.—94KEdwin79
GB United Kingdom#33389,74779K rec.—listedEdwin201
EC Ecuador#14865,375△703 rec.1 in 25965KEdwin64
VE Venezuela#66236,852160 rec.——Edwin7
AU Australia#46636,77235K rec.—1Edwin180
CA Canada#36533,85032K rec.—7Edwin184
DE Germany#50132,82030K rec.——Edwin176
SE Sweden#59519,248△2.1K rec.1 in 53019KEdvin67
NG Nigeria#56413,00319K rec.——Edwin91
CR Costa Rica#7719,712△665 rec.1 in 5259.7KEdvin8

Roughly 160K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 2.1K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Finnish35K37%
  • Spanish16K17%
  • Norwegian Bokmål8.8K9%
  • English8.3K9%
  • Swedish2.4K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Finnish35,10137%
Spanish15,60917%
Norwegian Bokmål8,8349%
English8,2679%
Swedish2,4213%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Edvin is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Polish given name3.0K records spelled Edvin58 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, Russia, Croatia

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Croatian

    Also written Edwin, Эдвин, Едвін, Едвин, Edwyn

  • Albanian given name2.3K records spelled Edvin2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, United States, Italy, United Kingdom

    Also written Êdvìñ

  • Hindi given name1.8K records spelled Edvin3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Sweden, Latvia

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  • a separate given name886 records spelled Edvin4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Sweden, Norway

    Also written Ėdvin, Eḍvin, Edvín

  • Czech given name678 records spelled Edvin4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, Latvia

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Edvín, Èdvin

35 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

0501001501960198020002020

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Edvin in SSB — Navn (1880–present), Norway, 1945–2025
Yearrecords
194526
194617
194723
194827
194925
195029
195127
195223
195315
195424
195526
195626
195726
195817
195914
196020
196116
196216
196310
196411
196512
196610
19676
196810
19695
197010
197110
19729
19737
197411
19758
19768
19779
197812
197910
19807
19816
198211
198311
19844
19857
19864
19879
19887
198913
19904
19918
199213
199314
199410
199513
199621
199710
199815
199914
200013
200125
200219
200316
200424
200523
200625
200721
200831
200937
201034
201138
201249
201357
201465
201583
201667
201797
201899
2019114
2020100
2021103
2022111
2023135
2024145
2025148

NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 81 years between 1945–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18501900195020002050Edvin Kallstenius, b. 1881Edvin Adolphson, b. 1893Edvin Laine, b. 1905Harri Larva, b. 1906Pertti Sveholm, b. 1953Edi Rama, b. 1964Edvin Marton, b. 1974Edvin Kanka Ćudić, b. 1988Edvin Endre, b. 1994Edvin Ryding, b. 2003

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 70 sources across 38 countries.

Official registers attesting Edvin
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—19K#225
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—10K#403
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20209.2K—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—8.8K#448
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—4.5K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20252.4K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.3K#6,805
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—474#617
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2025469#312
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—442#1,031
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—293#1,671
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—292#1,173

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 484 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Edvin?
We estimate roughly 271 thousand people bear Edvin (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Edvin have the most bearers?
We estimate about 160 thousand people bear Edvin in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled edwin.
Where is Edvin most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Edvin is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 259 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is Edvin compared with other names?
In the United States, Edvin is the 286th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
Is Edvin a male or female name?
Edvin is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Edvin mean?
Recorded meaning: Edvin är ett engelskt namn, sammansatt av fornengelskans ēad ’rikedom; egendom’ och wini ’vän’ (→ -vin).
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Edvin” — the 286th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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