Wyn is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Wynn, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Wyn: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 16 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,449 in 1954.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,449 in 1954; #5,841 in 2025. About 64% of babies named Wyn in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,841 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1954, at #3,449.
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Wyn: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 16 boys in 2025. Peak: #3,449 in 1954 · most boys in one year: 18 (2022).
In 2025, 16 US boys were named Wyn, making it the 5,841st most common boys’ name of the year, up 2,438 places from #8,279 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 10 boys named Wyn in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,449, reached in 1954. The most boys given the name in a single year was 18, in 2022. For comparison, it was #8,010 in 2015 and #4,187 in 1950.
In 2025, 9 US girls were named Wyn, making it the 10,872nd most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #6,236, reached in 1959. The most girls given the name in a single year was 9, in 2025. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Wyn in 24 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1944 with 5 babies. In all, 201 US babies have been given the name, 18% of them girls and 82% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 85 babies named Wyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 90 US boys were named Wyn; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 18. In 2025 that was about 1 in 106,755 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Wynn (4,117 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Wyn in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,872 | 16 | #5,841 |
| 2024 | — | — | 10 | #8,279 |
| 2023 | — | — | 9 | #8,879 |
| 2022 | — | — | 18 | #5,431 |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,538 | 12 | #7,072 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,990 | — | — |
| 2019 | — | — | 9 | #8,850 |
| 2018 | — | — | 10 | #8,125 |
| 2016 | — | — | 6 | #12,110 |
| 2015 | — | — | 10 | #8,010 |
| 2013 | — | — | 5 | #13,975 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,742 | 5 | #14,137 |
| 2010 | — | — | 6 | #12,152 |
| 2008 | — | — | 5 | #14,524 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,586 |
| 1963 | — | — | 5 | #4,617 |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,310 | — | — |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,236 | — | — |
| 1958 | — | — | 5 | #4,499 |
| 1956 | — | — | 6 | #3,935 |
| 1955 | — | — | 5 | #4,393 |
| 1954 | — | — | 7 | #3,449 |
| 1950 | — | — | 5 | #4,187 |
| 1944 | — | — | 5 | #3,903 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).