Godwin - friend of God; good friend

Did a little survey and found the following

Godwin is a very rare male first name and a very popular surname
Based on popular usage, it is 1.651 times more common for Godwin to be a boy's name.
The popularity of Godwin is: 4.937
(where 0 = extremely rare, 6 = super popular)

The boy's name Godwin \g(o)-dwin, god-win\ is of Old English origin, and its meaning is "friend of God; good friend". Anglo-Saxon name.

Godwin has 10 variant forms: Godden, Godding, Godewyn, Godin, Godwinn, Godwyn, Goodwin, Goodwyn, Goodwynn and Goodwynne.

Here is the list of some famous people having the name Godwin (excluding me)

Godwin, Earl of Wessex
Saint Godwin of Stavelot
Godwin a bishop of Lichfield
Becky Godwin
Dan Godwin
Edward William Godwin
Fay Godwin
Francis Godwin
Frank Godwin
Gail Godwin, American novelist and short story writer
General Godwin
George Godwin, architectural journalist
George Stanley Godwin, author
Glen Stewart Godwin
Hannibal Lafayette Godwin
Harry Godwin
Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen
James Godwin
Jeff Godwin
John Godwin
Joscelyn Godwin
Linda M. Godwin
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley
Mike Godwin
Mills E. Godwin Jr.
Neil Godwin, fictional character from The Office
Neville Godwin
Parke Godwin
Paul Godwin
Peter Godwin (writer)
Peter Godwin (singer)
Robert Alfred Cloynes Godwin-Austen
Ted Godwin
Thomas Godwin (bishop)
Tom Godwin (writer)
Tommy Godwin (footballer)
Tommy Godwin (cyclist)
Wayne Godwin
William Godwin, one of the first exponents of utilitarianism, and one of the first modern proponents of philosophical anarchism.