# Baldwin (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/baldwin/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | “bold friend” |
| Pronunciation | /ˈbɔːld.wɪn/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 634 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 634 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *Balþawini, from Proto-Germanic *Balþawiniz (“bold friend”).

## What it means

Baldwin is grouped under friend.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 8 | 8,210 |
| 2005 | 10 | 7,168 |
| 2008 | 6 | 11,209 |
| 2009 | 11 | 7,272 |
| 2010 | 8 | 8,892 |
| 2011 | 8 | 8,842 |
| 2015 | 6 | 10,822 |
| 2016 | 6 | 10,895 |
| 2017 | 10 | 7,626 |
| 2018 | 9 | 8,237 |
| 2019 | 11 | 7,232 |
| 2020 | 6 | 10,757 |
| 2021 | 10 | 7,661 |
| 2022 | 8 | 9,078 |
| 2023 | 6 | 10,989 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 3 | 4,805 |

## In other languages

- Armenian: Բալդուին
- Bulgarian: Балдуи́н
- Catalan: Baldoví, Balduí
- Chinese: 鮑德溫 /鲍德温
- Dutch: Boudewijn
- Esperanto: Baldueno
- Finnish: Baldwin
- French: Baudouin
- German: Balduin
- Greek: Βαλδουίνος
- Italian: Baldovino
- Latin: Balduīnus
- Portuguese: Valdivino
- Spanish: Balduino

## People named Baldwin

- Baldwin II of Jerusalem, Count of Edessa (r. 1100-1118) and King of Jerusalem (r. 1118–1131)
- Baldwin V of Flanders, Count of Flanders (1012-1067)
- Baldwin II of Constantinople, Emperor of Constantinople
- Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders, Count of Mons and Hainaut and Flanders (1030-1070)
- Baldwin IV, Count of Flanders (980-1035)
- Baldwin VII, Count of Flanders, Count of Flanders (1093-1119)
- Baldwin III, Count of Flanders, Count of Flanders (940-962)
- Baldwin II, Count of Hainaut, Count of Hainaut (1056-1098)
- Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut, count of Hainaut from 1120 to his death
- Baldwin III, Count of Hainaut, Count of Hainaut (1088-1120)
- Baldwin of Luxembourg, Archbishop of Trier
- Walter Baldwin Spencer, English-Australian biologist and anthropologist. (1860–1929)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.