Elwyn
Elwyn is a boy's name that peaked in 1924, when it was the 626th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 6,446th. About 880 Elwyns are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 67.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Elwyn boys named Elwyn
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,336
- Estimated living today
- 880
- Median age today
- 67
- Peak year
- 1924
- Best rank
- 626th
- Rank in 2025
- 6,446th
- First recorded
- 1893
- Girls / boys
- 105 / 3,231
How old the living Elwyns are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,336 babies given the name since 1893, about 880 are alive — 26 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1958 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Elwyns
- Elwyn Ralph Berlekamp (1940–2019)American mathematician
- Elwyn Roy King (1894–1941)fighter ace in the Australian Flying Corps (AFC) during World War I
People named Elwyn with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Elwyn is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Elwyn is most concentrated in Michigan (7.1×), New York (3.1×), Wisconsin (3.0×), Iowa (2.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1924
The most popular boys’ names the year Elwyn peaked:
Elwyn elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Elwyn | 134 | 1,359th |
| France boys | Elwyn | 100 | 5,717th |
| England and Wales girls | Elwyn | 3 | 4,598th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Elwyn against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.