# Uwe (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/uwe/  
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 and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 30 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 30 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 5 | 4,600 |
| 1963 | 6 | 4,023 |
| 1964 | 8 | 3,269 |
| 1968 | 6 | 4,116 |
| 1969 | 5 | 5,002 |

## People named Uwe

- Uwe Seeler, German association football player (1936–2022)
- Uwe Bein, German association football player
- Uwe Rahn, German association football player
- Uwe Boll, German filmmaker (born 1965)
- Uwe Gensheimer, German handball player
- Uwe Rösler, German association football manager and former player
- Uwe Ampler, East German racing cyclist
- Uwe Reinders, German association football player and manager
- Uwe Hünemeier, German footballer
- Uwe Daßler, East German swimmer
- Uwe Ochsenknecht, German actor and singer
- Uwe Peschel, German cyclist

## 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.