Given name
Uwe
“of the blade”
Uwe is used as a given name. One German interpretation is “of the blade.”
Original GermanUwi
Meaning & origin
What it means
One German interpretation is “of the blade.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is German.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1962. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Uwe through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 30
- 30 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1964
- 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 boys is 5 in 1969. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 1964. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 937 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Uwe’s family of names
In German usage, Uwe has a diminutive in UWI. Uwe is a form of Ove. In German usage, Uwe has a conventional equivalent in the Norwegian form Ove.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Uwe has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its German roots to each of them.
Germanwhere Uwe comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Uwe
- Uwe SeelerGerman association football player (1936–2022)
- Uwe BeinGerman association football playerborn 1960
- Uwe RahnGerman association football playerborn 1962
- Uwe BollGerman filmmaker (born 1965)
- Uwe JohnsonGerman writer (1934–1984)
- Uwe GensheimerGerman handball playerborn 1986
- Uwe RöslerGerman association football manager and former playerborn 1968
- Uwe TimmGerman writerborn 1940
- Uwe ReindersGerman association football player and managerborn 1955
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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