Otwin
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name from Old High German
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/otvɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Otwin is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Germany.
- DEGermany
- ATAustria
- NLNetherlands
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a male given name from Old High German
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Otwin van Dijkb. 1975NLDutch politician
- Otwin Biernatb. 1981ATAustrian actor and filmmaker
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 24 | #10,474 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 12 | #25,977 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #23,510 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 3 | #27,681 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2010 | 3 | #1,508 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2010 | 1 | #2,714 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2007 | 1 | #1,962 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 1984 | 1 | #735 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Otwin mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name from Old High German Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Otwin?
- A machine transcription gives /otvɪn/ (IPA) for German.
- Is Otwin a male or female name?
- Otwin is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Otwin?
- In the etymology graph, Edwin, Edwyn and Auðunn are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Otwin have the most bearers?
- Otwin is most frequently recorded in Germany.
What do you want to know about Otwin?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/otwinThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Otwin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.