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Folkwin

“people” + “friend”

Language context for this entry: German

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Origin: Old High German
1 language context: German
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01 / Meaning & origin

About Folkwin

Folkwin is a masculine given name documented in German. English Wiktionary traces it to Old High German folk via Middle High German, from the components “people” + “friend”.

Old High German origin

Source-reported

Meaning: “people” + “friend”

From Middle High German *Volkewîn, from Old High German *Folkwini, from Proto-West Germanic *Folkawini, equivalent to Old High German folk (“people”) + wini (“friend”).

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Wiktionary: FolkwinCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

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About Folkwin

Folkwin is a masculine given name documented in German. English Wiktionary traces it to Old High German folk via Middle High German, from the components “people” + “friend”.

Old High German origin

Source-reported

Meaning: “people” + “friend”

From Middle High German *Volkewîn, from Old High German *Folkwini, from Proto-West Germanic *Folkawini, equivalent to Old High German folk (“people”) + wini (“friend”).

Follow the language links in this account

Read from more recent borrowed forms toward older source forms. This is a derivation account, not a dated timeline.

Middle High German
Old High German
Proto-West Germanic

Only explicit language links are shown. The full passage may also discuss word roots, comparisons or uncertain proposals.

Proto-language forms marked with an asterisk in the source are reconstructions, rather than dated records of a person using the name.

Read the cited Wiktionary entry

Sources for this account (1)

Wiktionary: FolkwinCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

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Germany

Language records

Documented as a given name in German.

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4 of 4 countries

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms1

Wiktionary: FolkwinCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

A story to pass on.

About Folkwin

Old High German origin

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Germany

Popularity over time

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A name worth keeping.

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A story to pass on.

About Folkwin

Old High German origin

Where Folkwin is used

Across borders

Germany

Popularity over time

History

Related names

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page