Lwin

given name · Burmese · Latin script

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

Lwin is a given name, most frequently recorded in Myanmar (Burma), where it is the 9th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Burmese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Borrowing from Burmese လွင် (lwang).

rarermore common
  • MMMyanmar (Burma)1 in 14◐
  • SGSingapore1 in 41K
  • MYMalaysia1 in 93K

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

2.2M ●

in 5 countries

Sources
159 ●

9.5K records

Official registry-verified

Meaning & origin●

Borrowing from Burmese လွင် (lwang).

Sources 1

Where in the world●

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

Where Lwin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MM Myanmar (Burma)#92,206,4963.2K rec.—1.2MLwin102
TH Thailand—718748 rec.——Lwin81
MY Malaysia—699503 rec.——Lwin28
US United States—4462.9K rec.—1.5KLwin159
SG Singapore—2651.2K rec.——Lwin41
VN Vietnam—1325 rec.——Lwin9
ID Indonesia—122468 rec.——Lwin7
GB United Kingdom—56180 rec.——Lwin47
CA Canada—1195 rec.——Lwin18
CN China—114 rec.——Lwin7
NL Netherlands—1034 rec.——Lwin9
IN India—812 rec.——Lwin7

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

Languages●

  • Burmese2.2M100%
  • English7551%
  • Thai7281%
  • Japanese1771%
  • Indonesian1731%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Burmese2,207,616100%
English7551%
Thai7281%
Japanese1771%
Indonesian1731%

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◐

Lwin is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name7.0K records spelled Lwin4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Lŵiň

  • Spanish given name514 records spelled Lwin3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Singapore, Guatemala, Chile

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Lwïn

36 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.

Other recorded senses●

Lwin is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A surname from Burmese.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name●

  • Nanda Lwinb. 1971CACanadian music historian and journalist
  • Ngwe LwinMMMyanma herpetologist and primatologist

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 17 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Lwin
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
MM Myanmar (Burma)This page features the most common names in Myanmar, published on WorldNames.20231.2M#9
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.5K#18,171
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101K#24,370
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000418#47,654
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—44#28,538
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—41#32,131
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—38#11,136
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—35#13,551
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—14#32,187
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—12#32,748
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—9#44,985
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—8#26,547

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 · 19 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Lwin?
Our records include 2,209,128 bearers of Lwin across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
In which country does Lwin have the most bearers?
Lwin is most frequently recorded in Myanmar (Burma), where it is most often spelled lwin.
How common is Lwin compared with other names?
In Myanmar (Burma), Lwin is the 9th most common given name of 9,034 given names recorded there.
Is Lwin a male or female name?
Lwin 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 Lwin mean?
Recorded meaning: Borrowing from Burmese လွင် (lwang).
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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, “Lwin” — the 9th most common given name in Myanmar (Burma). Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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