 The name St Newlyn East is locally abbreviated to Newlyn East and according to an anonymous historian writing in "The Cornishman" in 1880 it was only in recent years that "Saint" had been added to the parish name.The parish is named after the patron saint of the church, St Newlina, and the population was 1,390 in the 2001 census, which had increased to 1,635 at the 2011 census.There is also an electoral ward named Newlyn and Goonhavern which following the 2011 census had a population of 4,933.