Given name
Ethelwyn
“a wellborn friend”
Ethelwyn is a variant of Ethelwin. One Anglo-Saxon interpretation is “a wellborn friend.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Ethelwyn is a variant of Ethelwin. One Anglo-Saxon interpretation is “a wellborn friend.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Ethelwyn is a variant of Ethelwin. An origin associated with Ethelwin is Anglo-Saxon.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1899. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ethelwyn through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 74
- 0 boys · 74 girls
- Most popular year
- 1917
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 1938. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ethelwyn’s family of names
Ethelwyn has a related form in Ethelwin.
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.
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