Èrwin
given name · Latin script
Èrwin is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old High German heri (“army”) + wini (“friend”). Taken to regular use from the play Erwin und Elmire (1775) by Goethe.
- CWCuraçao1 in 548(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 690
- ATAustria≈1 in 720
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 422 (measured from records)
- 1 in 548 (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Curaçao
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Erwin in US United States, DE Germany, PH Philippines and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Old High German heri (“army”) + wini (“friend”). Taken to regular use from the play Erwin und Elmire (1775) by Goethe.
Cited for this meaning 6
- A concise dictionary of first names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Èrwin counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #177 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 691 | — | Erwin | 212 |
| PH Philippines | #252 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Erwin | 132 |
| NL Netherlands | #105 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 728 | 16K | Erwin | 137 |
| AT Austria | #134 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 715 | 727 | Erwin | 135 |
| US United States | — | 12,624 | 1 in 26K | 22K | Erwin | 422 |
| CW Curaçao | — | 276 | 1 in 548 | 276 | — | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); CBS Curaçao — Most common first names by gender (2023). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Èrwin mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old High German heri (“army”) + wini (“friend”). Taken to regular use from the play Erwin und Elmire (1775) by Goethe. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Èrwin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 121 thousand people named Èrwin in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled erwin.
- Where is Èrwin most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Èrwin is densest in Curaçao — about 1 in 548 people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Èrwin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,624 people named Èrwin in 2020, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.
- How common is Èrwin compared with other names?
- In Germany, Èrwin is the 177th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Èrwin” — the 177th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.