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Irwin
Pronounced /ˈɝwɪn/
Rank in 2024
#5,563
Born in 2024
17
Peak year
1925 · #247
Origin
Not recorded
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 17 boys were named Irwin, about 1 in every 100,901.
- It peaked in 1925 with 527 babies, ranked #247.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 15,934 boys have been named Irwin since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Irwin per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.3Greatest1901–27
- 0.3Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 5,633 babies, 0.34 per 1,000. Silent: 5,818 babies, 0.28 per 1,000. Boomers: 2,143 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Gen X: 508 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Millennials: 596 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Z: 545 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 178 babies, 0.01 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From a medieval given name Erwin, from Eoforwine, from Old English eofor (“boar”) + wine (“friend”), the latter of which is from Proto-West Germanic *wini.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈɝwɪn/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Irwin, CC BY-SA 4.0.