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Ewen

#5,089 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Eòghann

Ewen has been given to 206 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #5,089 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 38 recorded.

Babies named Ewen, 2025

1 in 174,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ewen: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Eòghann

Scottish Gaelic

What Ewen means

Ewen is a form of Eòghann.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

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

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eòghann and Ewan.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 206 boys were recorded with the name Ewen between 1917 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 38 in 2024; its best national rank was #3,178 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,165 in 2020 to #5,089 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,651 in 2015 to #5,089 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 Ewen?

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
#5,089
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
120,943 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ewen 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 Ewen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ewens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ewen was born before 2016 — so the typical Ewen is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
37.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
196
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Choose a decade

2020s — 37.9% of all recorded uses (78).

Is Ewen 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
−1,911
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,076
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+7,562
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.80×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2024 (38)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
60.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,178
2024

Spellings of Ewen

Ewen is not the most common spelling — Evan is, with 21.5% against Ewen's 0.02%.

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 Ewen is used

Across 1910–2025, Ewen was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 599,655 across all states with data. It was least common in Indiana (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in —
  2. 2Indiana1 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. Ewen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ewen around the world

Where Ewen 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
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1974–2024
    #727
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2011–2011
    #730
    in 2011
  • France
    1972–2025
    #139
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,817
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1945–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.

Ewen by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,089
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,076
Best rank ever
#3,178
2024
Peak year
2024
38 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
206
Count in 2025
19

Names similar to Ewen

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

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Sibling names for Ewen

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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