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How popular is the name Anwen?
Births per year, rank history and how many Anwens are alive today.
Anwen (female) is a rare girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 1051st in 2025 and given to 32 babies. The name peaked in 2014, when 51 babies were given the name, the 763rd most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 1255 in 2023 before climbing back to the 1051st place it holds today. Numbers have been stable in recent years.
The Anwen you are most likely to meet is around 13 years old. Half of all Anwens born in England and Wales are between 8 and 21, and there are at least 930 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Anwen - on average, only one in every 339 such rooms contains a Anwen.
How many babies are named Anwen each year?
Where does Anwen rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Anwen most popular?
Anwen peaked in 2014, when 51 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Anwen?
At least 930 people named Anwen born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Anwen?
Most living Anwens are between 8 and 21; the most common age is about 13.
Is Anwen becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.