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Eoghan

#5,086 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly born from the yew tree

Eoghan has been given to 507 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #5,086 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 29 recorded.

Babies named Eoghan, 2025

1 in 174,000

Eoghan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eoghan: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly born from the yew tree

Irish

What Eoghan means

Eoghan may mean “born from the yew tree”.

Origin, language, and formation

Eoghan is used in English and Irish. Its origins include Irish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eòghann.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Irish, Eoghan is pronounced /oːn̪ˠ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 507 boys were recorded with the name Eoghan between 1989 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 29 in 2015; its best national rank was #3,720 in 2015.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,588 in 2020 to #5,086 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,720 in 2015 to #5,086 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Eoghan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 174,000
19 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 89,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,086
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
120,943 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eoghan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eoghan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eoghans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eoghan was born before 2014 — so the typical Eoghan is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
507
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 39.3% of all recorded uses (199).

Is Eoghan rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+30
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−498
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,366
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.66×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
65.5%
Peak was 2015 (29)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,720
2015

Spellings of Eoghan

Eoghan is not the most common spelling — Ethan is, with 52.6% against Eoghan's 0.05%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Eoghan is used

Across 1910–2025, Eoghan was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 848,760 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Eoghan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Eoghan around the world

Where Eoghan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1983–2025
    #495
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2025
    #169
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1964–2025
    #132
    in 2025
  • France
    1999–2020
    #5,766
    in 2020
  • Canada
    2004–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1975–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Eoghan by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,086
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 498
Best rank ever
#3,720
2015
Peak year
2015
29 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
507
Count in 2025
19

Names similar to Eoghan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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