Comments for ERWIN:

No offense to those who bear this name, but it sounds like a richy person's name.

-- Tbird  8/4/2005

The German pronunciation: air-vin. [noted -ed]
Much different from the English pronunciation, which sounds just the way it's spelled.

-- aphroheidi  1/14/2006

Erwin (pronounced ERR-veen) can also be encountered in Poland. It is not considered particularly foreign-sounding there.

-- angolmois  9/12/2006

Listen to the German pronunciation of Erwin here:
http://www.nordicnames.de/Aussprache.html.

-- _satu_  10/24/2006

In Dutch it is pronounced EHR-win. [noted -ed]

-- Anonymous User  5/2/2007

Erwin Rommel (1891-1944), the "Desert Fox", was a famous German Field Marshal during World War II.

-- goricar  11/16/2009

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