Kewin
A Celtic name meaning roughly "handsome" or "gentle birth". It had its run in the early 2000s and has faded since, rare enough now that most Poles have never met one, and only ever given to boys.
Kewin Pronunciation
Kewin is pronounced KE-veen (/ˈkɛvin/).
What Kewin means
Where Kewin comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Kewin is the Polish spelling of a name that reaches back to Celtic ground. Its ancestor is the Irish Caoimhín, built from the old word "caomh," meaning gentle, kind, and fair of face. From that root come the meanings carried today: handsome, and a gentle birth. In Polish the sense stays plainer, ładny, przystojny.
The name traveled a long way before it settled on a Polish birth certificate. Saint Kevin of Glendalough, a hermit of sixth-century Ireland, is the reason it spread west and then further. His feast falls on the third of June. Kewin, spelled with a w, belongs to a later moment, when English-language names entered Polish nurseries and picked up local spelling.
Read a class register in a Polish szkoła podstawowa and the name looks at home. It is short. The Celtic origin sits under it, the old "caomh" still meaning handsome, still pointing to a gentle birth.
When Kewin celebrates name day
Kewin appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 3 June.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
How many people are named Kewin
1 in 6566 men in Poland is named Kewin. 3,251 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #572 among male names.
Kewin's popularity over time
13 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #636 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #572 name among living men, even as it slips to #636 among newborns.
Where parents choose Kewin
Kewin is most popular in Opole, 444% above the national average (8 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Kuyavian-Pomeranian (+100%) and Lubusz (+89%). It is least common in Pomeranian and Łódź, 57% and 51% below average respectively.
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Opole
+444%1 in 5,762 babies
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian
+100%1 in 15,626 babies
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Lubusz
+89%1 in 16,552 babies
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Pomeranian
−57%1 in 73,661 babies
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Łódź
−51%1 in 63,359 babies
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Silesian
−45%1 in 56,896 babies
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Opole+444% 8 born1 in 5,762 babies+444%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian+100% 7 born1 in 15,626 babies+100%
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Lubusz+89% 3 born1 in 16,552 babies+89%
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Greater Poland+89% 13 born1 in 16,557 babies+89%
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West Pomeranian+85% 5 born1 in 16,885 babies+85%
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Lower Silesian+59% 8 born1 in 19,642 babies+59%
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Subcarpathian+30% 5 born1 in 24,113 babies+30%
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Lesser Poland−31% 5 born1 in 45,383 babies−31%
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Masovian−38% 7 born1 in 50,609 babies−38%
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Silesian−45% 4 born1 in 56,896 babies−45%
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Łódź−51% 2 born1 in 63,359 babies−51%
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Pomeranian−57% 2 born1 in 73,661 babies−57%
Kewin as a middle name
Kewin is a first name for 3,251 men in Poland and a middle name for another 545, an 86/14 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 307th, between Philip (546) and Lubomir (540).
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#305 Felicjan548
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#306 Philip546
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#307 Kewin545
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#308 Lubomir540
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#309 Apolinary537