Arwyn

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Arwyn: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Arwyn: Recorded since 1998, its highest recorded position is #790, reached in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
38times a registrar ranked it
27years from first to last
#790highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2004–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2004	#4598
2006	#5061
2007	#4294
2008	#3860
2010	#4688
2011	#4049
2013	#3536
2014	#5691
2016	#3214
2017	#4063
2019	#4686
2020	#5493
2021	#2499
2022	#2888
2023	#2201
2024	#2771

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 20 of the 27 years from 1998 to 2024.

In 2024: #790 among girls in Scotland, #2771 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1998–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1998
First recorded at #2419 among boys in England and Wales in 1998 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2771 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Arwyn appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 20 years beginning in 1998, and has registered 146 births with the name.

Arwyn across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Arwyn's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2419 (1998)	#1420 (2022)	#1675 (2024)	20 of 27	146 (1998–2024)	18 (2022)
England and Wales · Girls	#4598 (2004)	#2201 (2023)	#2771 (2024)	16 of 21	91 (2004–2024)	12 (2023)

Arwyn by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Arwyn in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	9	2 of 10	5
2000s	17	5 of 10	3
2010s	47	8 of 10	6
2020sbusiest	73	5 of 10	15

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 15 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Arwyn appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #790 in Scotland in 2024.

Arwyn's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#2771	9	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#1675	15	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2201	12	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1610	15	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2888	8	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1420	18	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2499	10	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1782	13	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#5493	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1825	12	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4686	4	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1986	11	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3011	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4063	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2734	7	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3214	7	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2804	7	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2707	7	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#5691	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3536	6	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#4685	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#4805	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4049	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#4647	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4688	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3860	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#4432	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#4294	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#4333	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#5061	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#4598	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2470	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#3134	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2097	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2419	4	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#790	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1998 and 2024, ranked in 23 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #790, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 18 births, registered in England and Wales in 2022.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 5 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2014, and 26 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Arwen · #215, 26y
Arwin · #2671, 13y
Arya · #120, 30y
Aryaan · #935, 24y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Ariadne · #790, 26y
Emi · #790, 28y
Iva · #790, 22y
Lilyana · #790, 23y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Adanna · #790, 26y
Ariadne · #790, 26y
Bali · #790, 10y
Bonny · #790, 26y

Arwyn was ranked #790 in Scotland · Girls in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Arwyn and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Arwyn without appearing here.

Arwyn moved ahead of

Kristin Compare
In 2022 they stood at #5493 and #5493 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2201 and #5687.
Tracey Compare
In 2022 they stood at #5493 and #4535 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2201 and #5687.
Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1610 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1675 and #5119.
Kristine Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5493 and #5493 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2771 and #5891.

Moved ahead of Arwyn

Kasper Compare
In 2003 they stood at #2470 and #2857 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #3651 and #1347.
Cillian Compare
In 2000 they stood at #2097 and #2943 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #3134 and #1746.
Rory Compare
In 2016 they stood at #3536 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #4063 and #2706.
Blake Compare
In 2010 they stood at #4294 and #5201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #4049 and #2893.

Moved the opposite way to Arwyn

Brent Compare
Between 1998 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Arwyn went from #2419 to #1420 while Brent went from #571 to #3449.
Ole Compare
Between 1998 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Arwyn went from #2419 to #1420 while Ole went from #2901 to #4789.
Tor Compare
Between 1998 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Arwyn went from #2419 to #1420 while Tor went from #2074 to #3449.
Jade Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Arwyn went from #3134 to #1675 while Jade went from #2220 to #5119.

Moved the same way as Arwyn

Francis Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Arwyn went from #5061 to #2771 and Francis from #5061 to #2574.
Meabh Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Arwyn went from #5061 to #2771 and Meabh from #2781 to #952.
Aksel Compare
Between 2007 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Arwyn went from #4333 to #1675 and Aksel from #3589 to #1132.
Matheo Compare
Between 2007 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Arwyn went from #4333 to #1675 and Matheo from #4333 to #1517.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #790 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Arwyn

Arwyn at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Arwyn across 2 official records

Arwyn by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Arwyn across 2 official records

Arwyn by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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