Edwin is a boy's name of Spanish origin meaning “wealth-friend.” In 2024 it was given to 850 boys in the United States.
Edwin at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Spanish · English & American
Meaning
“wealth-friend”
Pronunciation
/ˈɛdwɪn/
About the name Edwin
Edwin belongs to the Spanish and English & American tradition. Its meaning — “wealth-friend” — is the sense carried by its Spanish roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Edwin first appears in Social Security records in 1880. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #52 in 1919, and in 2024 850 babies received the name — 246,744 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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