Olwyn
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɒlwɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Olwyn is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. Recorded meaning: From Welsh ol (“footprint”) and gwen (“fair, white”).
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
- IEIreland
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)
From Welsh ol (“footprint”) and gwen (“fair, white”).
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Olwyn, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Olwyn is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Welsh, wheel
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Olwyn Mary Turbottb. 1914NZNew Zealand ethnologist (1914-1994)
- Morva Croxsonb. 1934NZnot in their usual nameNew Zealand music therapist and university chancellor
- Judith Medlicottb. 1942NZnot in their usual nameNew Zealand lawyer, Mastermind champion, and university chancellor (1942–2024)
- Olwyn Enrightb. 1974IEIrish politician
- Olwyn Ava FinneganGBresearcher
- Diana O. FisherAUnot in their usual nameAustralian biological scientist and ecologist
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 12 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 1926 | 16 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 1929 | 14 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 11 | #583 |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 1941 | 11 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 1927 | 11 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 1925 | 11 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 1951 | 10 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 1948 | 10 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 1940 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1970 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 5 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Olwyn mean, and where does it come from?
- From Welsh ol (“footprint”) and gwen (“fair, white”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Olwyn a male or female name?
- Olwyn is a female 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 Olwyn?
- In the etymology graph, Olwen is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Olwyn?
- A machine transcription gives /ɒlwɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Olwyn have the most bearers?
- Olwyn is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom.
What do you want to know about Olwyn?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/olwynThe 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, “Olwyn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.