Anwen
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- AN-wen
- Origin
- Welsh
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,107 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #10,104 for girls
Anwen is a girls' name of Welsh origin, meaning “very fair, very blessed”. In 2025 it ranked 1,107th for girls in the UK (32 babies) and 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).
What does Anwen mean?
Welsh
“very fair, very blessed”
Combines a Welsh intensifying prefix with gwen, 'white, fair, blessed'.
Is Anwen a girl's or a boy's name?
Anwen is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 32 girls in the UK and 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Anwen in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,107th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 32 about 1 in 8,700 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 17% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 32 girls in the UK were named Anwen, making it the 1,107th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,180th. Its busiest year was 2014, with 51 girls.
Half of all the girls named Anwen in the UK since 1996 were born between 2007 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 38 girls in the UK were given Anwen or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #882, up from #1,107 for this spelling alone.
- Anwen 32
- Anwyn 6
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,051st in England and Wales.
Anwen in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #1,107 |
| 2024 | 33 | #1,084 |
| 2023 | 26 | #1,322 |
| 2022 | 35 | #1,051 |
| 2021 | 30 | #1,201 |
| 2020 | 30 | #1,180 |
| 2019 | 42 | #926 |
| 2018 | 37 | #1,028 |
| 2017 | 45 | #916 |
| 2016 | 36 | #1,056 |
| 2015 | 38 | #1,014 |
| 2014 | 51 | #819 |
| 2013 | 36 | #1,065 |
| 2012 | 48 | #857 |
| 2011 | 33 | #1,117 |
| 2010 | 33 | #1,080 |
| 2009 | 26 | #1,245 |
| 2008 | 26 | #1,215 |
| 2007 | 31 | #1,026 |
| 2006 | 35 | #915 |
| 2005 | 32 | #918 |
| 2004 | 29 | #967 |
| 2003 | 30 | #916 |
| 2002 | 15 | #1,399 |
| 2001 | 21 | #1,070 |
| 2000 | 11 | #1,689 |
| 1999 | 13 | #1,493 |
| 1998 | 11 | #1,694 |
| 1997 | 8 | #2,073 |
| 1996 | 11 | #1,621 |
How popular is Anwen in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,104th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 180,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 9 girls in the US were named Anwen, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2004, with 18 girls. It first appears in the records in 1998.
Half of all the girls named Anwen in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
Anwen in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,104 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,266 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,532 |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,677 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 12 | #8,926 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,552 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,031 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,424 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,146 |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,953 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,594 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,535 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,711 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,003 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,484 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,319 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,095 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,024 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,116 |
Names like Anwen
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Seren, Ava, Eden, Imogen, Arwen, Aoife, Anaya, Wren, Arya, Isla, Amelie, Harper
Other spellings of Anwen
Anwyn
Names related to Anwen
More Welsh names
Dylan, Owen, Winnie, Maddox, Morgan, Idris, Reese, Bowen, Griffin, Rhys, Gavin, Reece, Nia, Gwendolyn, Winifred, Meredith
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Anwen: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/anwen, updated 20 October 2026.