Corwin
Masculine · “friend of the heart”
Corwin is an English surname with two readings — a friend of the heart, or a keeper of the crows.
How old is the name Corwin?
Corwin first appears in US birth records in 1900 — 125 years ago. The typical Corwin alive today was born around 1982, making them about 43 years old. About 3,400 people named Corwin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Corwin most popular?
Corwin peaked in 1969, reaching #920 nationally. Today it ranks #4396, 3,476 places below that high. See the whole 1969 chart.
Where it comes from
From wine to Corwin
The story of Corwin
Wine is the Old English word for a friend and closes a great many early English names — Edwin, Godwin, Baldwin, Darwin. Corwin joins it to a first element that is argued: the French for a heart, giving a friend of the heart, or the Latin for a raven. The surname reached America with English settlement and appears as a given name in real numbers in the 1960s.
Meaningscholars disagree
friend of the heart; or raven's friend
One reading joins Old French coeur, heart, to the Germanic wine, a friend. Another takes it from corvin, of the raven, from Latin corvus. Neither is settled and both are seriously offered for the surname.
How the name formed
- wine
- Corwin
Related forms: Corwyn · Corvinus
Pronouncing Corwin
KOR-win
Two syllables, first stressed. There is no variation in English.
Nicknames for Corwin
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1900
- Most boys named
- 198996 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #920reached in 1969
- Change vs 2023
- −14.8%23 in 2025, from 27
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Corwin in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Corwyn in English — spelling variant
- Corvinus in Latin — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California.
Corwins among us
people named Corwin are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 74,264 born in 2025 was named Corwin
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Hansel test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Corwin's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Hansel climbed just as high around 1905, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Hansel's path sketches the road Corwin is walking now.
Corwin sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Corwin beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Corwin in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented English surname with two genuinely appealing readings.
- Corey is a sound-alike short form in ordinary use.
- Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
- It reads as a surname to people meeting it in front of another one.
- Corwin, Corvin and Corbin are all close and get confused.
- The two possible meanings are unrelated to one another.
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Masculine · #4396 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Corwins are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,400 people named Corwin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Corwin in 2025?
- Corwin ranks #4396 among US boy names in 2025, with 23 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Corwin?
- About 1 in every 74,264 US boys born in 2025 was named Corwin — 23 in all.
- Will my child share the name Corwin with classmates?
- Corwin will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Corwin
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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