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Eun

Girls' name

Kindness, mercy, charity or silver, money

Eun has been given to 290 babies in the U.S. since 1957. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1985, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Eun, 2003

1 in 543,000

Eun over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eun: meaning, origin, and history

Kindness, mercy, charity or silver, money

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Eun means

Eun means “kindness, mercy, charity or silver, money”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Eun is used in Korean.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ɯn/ for Eun.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 285 girls were recorded with the name Eun between 1957 and 2003. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1985; its best national rank was #5,429 in 1966.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Eun between 1989 and 1989. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1989; its best national rank was #8,293 in 1989.

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.

How common is Eun?

Eun had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2003, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2003
1 in 543,000
7 of 3,801,425 births
Among girls only
1 in 261,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2003
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
376,422 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eun sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2003 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 376,422 children born in 2003 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eun. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Euns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eun was born before 1983 — so the typical Eun is around 42 today.

Median birth year
1983
About 42 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
33.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
66.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
285
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 33.3% of all recorded uses (95).

Is Eun 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1985 (13)
Years since peak
40
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,429
1966

Where Eun is used

Across 1910–2025, Eun was most concentrated in Kansas — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 437,528 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kansas1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Eun has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Eun around the world

Where Eun 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
    2003–2007
    #5,201
    in 2007
  • Canada
    1994–1994
    #2,260
    in 1994
  • South Australia
    2002–2002
    #730
    in 2002

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Eun by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,429
1966
Peak year
1985
13 that year
First recorded
1957
Last recorded
2003
All-time count
285
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,293
1989
Peak year
1989
5 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
1989
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Eun

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

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Sibling names for Eun

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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