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Corwin - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Corwin

[ 2 syll. co-rwi(n), cor-w-in ] The boy name Corwin is pronounced as KAORWIHN KEY. Corwin is primarily used in the English language and its language of origin is also English. The meaning of the name is friend. A variant of Corwin is the Dutch and English short form Cor.

Corwin is uncommon as a baby boy name. At the modest height of its usage in 1988, 0.005% of baby boys were given the name Corwin. It was #986 in rank then. The baby name has declined in popularity since then, and is now used on an infrequent scale. Within all boy names in its family, Corwin was nonetheless the most regularly used in 2008.

Baby names that sound like Corwin include the English and French Carmen, the Italian Carmine, the English Carney, the English Carran, the Welsh Carwyn, the French Corin, the English Corney, the English Cornie, the English Curran, the Arabic Karam, the English Kareem, the Arabic and English Karim, the name Kearney, the English Keeran, the Turkish Kerim, the English Kerwen, the English Kerwin, the English Kiaran, the English and Irish Kieran, and the English Kieren.

KEY: Pronunciation for Corwin: K as in "key (K.IY)" ; AO as in "ought (AO.T)" ; R as in "read (R.IY.D)" ; W as in "we (W.IY)" ; IH as in "it (IH.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)"


 
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