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Ewan

#1,479 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Eòghann

Ewan has been given to 3,236 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #1,479 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 168 recorded.

Babies named Ewan, 2025

1 in 27,600

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ewan: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Eòghann

Scottish Gaelic

What Ewan means

Ewan is a form of Eòghann.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Ewan → Eòghann. The family’s meaning is “yew-born”, recorded in Scottish Gaelic with the source elements Iwogenos.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Scottish Gaelic Eòghan. Not related to Iwan and Evan.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Ewan (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Ewan is used in English. Its origins include Scottish Gaelic.

Ewan comes through Scottish Gaelic Eòghan.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eòghann.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Ewan is pronounced /ˈjuːən/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,236 boys were recorded with the name Ewan between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 168 in 2013; its best national rank was #1,102 in 2013.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,514 in 2020 to #1,479 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,285 in 2015 to #1,479 in 2025.

How common is Ewan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 27,600
120 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 14,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,479
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
19,150 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ewan 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 19,150 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ewan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ewans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ewan was born before 2013 — so the typical Ewan is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
42.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,236
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 42.1% of all recorded uses (1,361).

Is Ewan 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
+35
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+35
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−194
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.86×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
71.4%
Peak was 2013 (168)
Years since peak
12
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,102
2013

Spellings of Ewan

Ewan is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 21.1% against Ewan's 0.07%.

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 Ewan is used

Across 2016–2025, Ewan was most concentrated in Washington — about 1 in 6,667 boys, against 1 in 19,602 across all states with data. It was least common in Georgia (1 in 100,000).

115 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Washington1 in 6,667
  2. 2Colorado1 in 8,333
  3. 3Virginia1 in 11,111
  4. 4California1 in 12,500
  5. 5Ohio1 in 12,500
  6. 6Oregon1 in 12,500
  7. 7Missouri1 in 14,286
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 16,667

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.

Ewan around the world

Where Ewan 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
    #462
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1974–2025
    #219
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2023
    #395
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    1972–2025
    #577
    in 2025
  • France
    1975–2025
    #878
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #794
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1944–2013
    #499
    in 2013

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.

Notable people named Ewan

People whose public names include Ewan, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Ewan in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Ewan. Linked forms have their own page here.

Euan

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Ewan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,479
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 35
Best rank ever
#1,102
2013
Peak year
2013
168 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,236
Count in 2025
120

Names similar to Ewan

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

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Names with a curve like Ewan

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Ewan, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Ewan

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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