Anwyn
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- AN-win
- Origin
- Welsh
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,776 for girls
Anwyn is a girls' name of Welsh origin, meaning “very fair, blessed”. In 2025 it ranked 3,776th for girls in the UK (6 babies).
What does Anwyn mean?
Welsh: variant of Anwen
“very fair, blessed”
A variant of Welsh Anwen, from an intensifying prefix plus gwen 'white, fair, blessed'.
Is Anwyn a girl's or a boy's name?
Anwyn is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Anwyn in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,776th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 46,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 22% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the UK were named Anwyn, making it the 3,776th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,326th. Its busiest year was 2014, with 8 girls.
2025 had more girls named Anwyn than any year since 2014.
Half of all the girls named Anwyn in the UK since 1996 were born between 2009 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 38 girls in the UK were given Anwyn or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #882, up from #3,776 for this spelling alone.
- Anwen 32
- Anwyn 6
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,704th in England and Wales.
Anwyn in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #3,776 |
| 2024 | 5 | #4,253 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 1 | #7,326 |
| 2019 | 5 | #4,214 |
| 2018 | 3 | #5,896 |
| 2017 | 5 | #4,250 |
| 2016 | 3 | #6,009 |
| 2015 | 1 | #7,629 |
| 2014 | 8 | #3,031 |
| 2013 | 3 | #6,003 |
| 2012 | 1 | #7,881 |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
| 2010 | 4 | #4,931 |
| 2009 | 4 | #4,795 |
| 2008 | 4 | #4,742 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 3 | #5,259 |
| 2005 | 5 | #3,543 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 3 | #4,560 |
How popular is Anwyn in the US?
No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2006, with 9 girls. It first appears in the records in 1998.
Half of all the girls named Anwyn in the US since 1880 were born between 2003 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.
Anwyn in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #15,246 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,677 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,413 |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,507 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,577 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,477 |
| 2011 | 5 | #16,756 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,442 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,412 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,003 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,092 |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,837 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,102 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,738 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,420 |
Names like Anwyn
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Seren, Ava, Eden, Aoife, Isla, Amelie, Orla, Lily, Harper, Autumn, Bella, Arabella
Other spellings of Anwyn
Names related to Anwyn
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, “Anwyn: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/anwyn, updated 20 October 2026.