Orwin
Orwin is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:Clifford Orwin, Canadian academic John Orwin, English rugby union player Joanna Orwin, New Zealand writer Louise Orwin, British performance artist Martin Orwin, English linguist and writer Orwin Castel, Mauritian footballer
Meaning & Origin of Orwin
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Orwin is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:Clifford Orwin, Canadian academic John Orwin, English rugby union player Joanna Orwin, New Zealand writer Louise Orwin, British performance artist Martin Orwin, English linguist and writer Orwin Castel, Mauritian footballer
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The Story of Orwin
Orwin first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1915, with 7 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1920: 9 births, good for #2,966 nationwide. About 59% of every Orwin on record arrived during the 1920s, its defining decade. Orwin last appeared in the published SSA data in 1928, with 7 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 49 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1910s to the 2020s.
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About the name Orwin
Orwin is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1915 and has accumulated 49 births in the dataset. Orwin's peak popularity came in 1920 when it ranked #2,966. Use the chart and map above to compare Orwin's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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