Eoin
Eoin was given to 45 boys in 2025, #2,809 among boys’ names; 1,604 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,580 Americans named Eoin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Eoin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Eoin mean?
Wiktionary, Irish section
Eoin is “a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English John, often confused with the unrelated native name, Eoghan” Its etymology gives the sense “God is gracious” (literally).
From Old Irish Iohain, from Latin Iōannēs, from Ancient Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָן (Yôḥānān, literally “God is gracious”). Doublet of Seán.
/oːnʲ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Irish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Eoin?
#2,809 among boys’ names, 2025
Eoin fell from #2,283 in 2015 to #2,809 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 30.3 to 26.3 per million.
75 babies in 2020, the peak
Eoin peaked in 2020, when 75 boys were given it, #1,942 among boys’ names. The 45 births of 2025 are 60% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45 | #2,809 | 26.3 |
| 2024 | 34 | #3,409 | 19.7 |
| 2023 | 52 | #2,551 | 30.4 |
| 2022 | 55 | #2,499 | 31.5 |
| 2021 | 57 | #2,388 | 32.6 |
| 2020 | 75 | #1,942 | 43.5 |
| 2019 | 56 | #2,399 | 31.2 |
| 2018 | 56 | #2,358 | 30.8 |
| 2017 | 45 | #2,724 | 24.3 |
| 2016 | 55 | #2,371 | 29.0 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 58 | #2,283 | 30.3 |
| 2014 | 54 | #2,378 | 28.1 |
| 2013 | 51 | #2,435 | 27.0 |
| 2012 | 44 | #2,732 | 23.2 |
| 2011 | 52 | #2,411 | 27.4 |
| 2010 | 40 | #2,922 | 20.8 |
| 2009 | 47 | #2,629 | 23.7 |
| 2008 | 55 | #2,353 | 27.0 |
| 2007 | 56 | #2,315 | 27.0 |
| 2006 | 52 | #2,378 | 25.3 |
| 2005 | 47 | #2,440 | 23.5 |
| 2004 | 44 | #2,501 | 22.2 |
| 2003 | 63 | #1,870 | 31.9 |
| 2002 | 45 | #2,304 | 23.2 |
| 2001 | 55 | #1,962 | 28.3 |
| 2000 | 38 | #2,487 | 19.3 |
| 1999 | 42 | #2,207 | 21.9 |
| 1998 | 25 | #3,120 | 13.1 |
| 1997 | 28 | #2,777 | 14.9 |
| 1996 | 19 | #3,580 | 10.0 |
| 1995 | 21 | #3,222 | 11.0 |
| 1994 | 14 | #4,369 | 7.2 |
| 1993 | 19 | #3,403 | 9.7 |
| 1992 | 11 | #4,982 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,118 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 16 | #3,652 | 7.8 |
| 1989 | 11 | #4,602 | 5.5 |
| 1988 | 7 | #5,962 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,355 | 3.2 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,854 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,805 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,689 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,094 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,739 | 3.4 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,349 | 2.9 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,814 | 3.8 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,149 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Eoin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Eoin has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Eoin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Eoin, and how old are they?
1,580 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,604 Americans ever recorded as Eoin. The median Eoin alive today is 16 years old; half are between 8 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 1,526 people named Eoin (7 women and girls, 1,519 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,288 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 20 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 149 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 721 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 688 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Eoin born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 6 | #2,276 | 0.6× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #816 | 3.2× |
Where Eoin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Eoin is most over-represented in Massachusetts: since 1971 it was given 3.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Eoin with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 13,452 babies since 1880, Eoin is the third most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 45 of their 225 babies (20%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Eoin
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Eoin and names like it
- Compare Eoin and EanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sEoin peaked in 2020.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Eoin since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Eoin: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Eoin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Eoin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.