Given name
Carwyn
Carwyn is a masculine given name from Welsh. It is used in English and Welsh.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2012. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Carwyn through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 95
- 95 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2018
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #10,904 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −32%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,904 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 11 in 2018.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Carwyn’s family of names
Carwyn may belong to the same name family as CARWYNN. This is a tentative spelling connection.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Carwyn
- Carwyn JonesFirst Minister of Wales from 2009 to 2018born 1967
- Carwyn JamesWelsh rugby union footballer and coach (1929–1983)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Appears in
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