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Ewing

Boys' name

Transferred from a surname; no fixed literal translation

Ewing has been given to 1,202 babies in the U.S. since 1882. 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 1925, with 43 recorded.

Babies named Ewing, 2021

1 in 678,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ewing: meaning, origin, and history

Transferred from a surname; no fixed literal translation

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ewing means

Ewing is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Ewing is used in English.

Ewing is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Ewing is pronounced /ˈjuːwɪŋ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,202 boys were recorded with the name Ewing between 1882 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 43 in 1925; its best national rank was #615 in 1885.

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 Ewing?

Ewing had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 678,000
5 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only
1 in 350,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ewing 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 2021 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 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ewing. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ewings were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ewing was born before 1927 — so the typical Ewing is around 98 today.

Median birth year
1927
About 98 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
25.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
205
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 25.9% of all recorded uses (311).

Is Ewing 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 1925 (43)
Years since peak
100
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#615
1885

Spellings of Ewing

Ewing is not the most common spelling — Edwin is, with 73.8% against Ewing's 0.36%.

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 Ewing is used

Across 1910–2025, Ewing was most concentrated in Tennessee — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 136,520 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Tennessee1 in 25,000
  2. 2Kentucky1 in 33,333
  3. 3Missouri1 in —
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in —
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 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. Ewing has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ewing around the world

Where Ewing 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.

  • France
    1981–1981
    #2,929
    in 1981

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Ewing by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#615
1885
Peak year
1925
43 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
1,202
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ewing

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

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Sibling names for Ewing

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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