Ewan
Ewan was given to 120 boys in 2025, #1,479 among boys’ names; 3,236 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,200 Americans named Ewan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ewan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ewan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ewan is “a male given name from Scottish Gaelic.”
From Scottish Gaelic Eòghan. Not related to Iwan and Evan.
/ˈjuːən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ewan?
#1,479 among boys’ names, 2025
Ewan fell from #1,285 in 2015 to #1,479 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 72.5 to 70.3 per million.
168 babies in 2013, the peak
Ewan peaked in 2013, when 168 boys were given it, #1,102 among boys’ names. The 120 births of 2025 are 71% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 120 | #1,479 | 70.3 |
| 2024 | 118 | #1,514 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 147 | #1,301 | 85.9 |
| 2022 | 130 | #1,417 | 74.5 |
| 2021 | 121 | #1,482 | 69.2 |
| 2020 | 111 | #1,514 | 64.3 |
| 2019 | 109 | #1,545 | 60.8 |
| 2018 | 103 | #1,596 | 56.7 |
| 2017 | 119 | #1,442 | 64.3 |
| 2016 | 137 | #1,317 | 72.2 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 139 | #1,285 | 72.5 |
| 2014 | 158 | #1,180 | 82.3 |
| 2013 | 168 | #1,102 | 88.8 |
| 2012 | 141 | #1,252 | 74.3 |
| 2011 | 140 | #1,240 | 73.7 |
| 2010 | 147 | #1,210 | 76.6 |
| 2009 | 137 | #1,283 | 69.1 |
| 2008 | 124 | #1,375 | 60.8 |
| 2007 | 131 | #1,312 | 63.1 |
| 2006 | 148 | #1,146 | 72.0 |
| 2005 | 110 | #1,366 | 55.1 |
| 2004 | 91 | #1,483 | 45.8 |
| 2003 | 85 | #1,515 | 43.0 |
| 2002 | 82 | #1,517 | 42.2 |
| 2001 | 49 | #2,126 | 25.2 |
| 2000 | 36 | #2,582 | 18.3 |
| 1999 | 43 | #2,175 | 22.4 |
| 1998 | 27 | #2,951 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 12 | #5,050 | 6.4 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,088 | 3.1 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,172 | 2.5 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,103 | 4.3 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,696 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,735 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,103 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,138 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,122 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ewan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ewan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ewan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ewan, and how old are they?
3,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,236 Americans ever recorded as Ewan. The median Ewan alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 2,941 people named Ewan (32 women and girls, 2,909 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,492 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 | 12 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 38 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,480 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,670 |
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 Ewan born?
The states with the most babies named Ewan are California, Utah and Colorado, with 50% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Utah and Colorado are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 13 | #1,379 | 1.0× |
| Utah | 8 | #530 | 0.5× |
| Colorado | 7 | #704 | 1.3× |
| Oregon | 7 | #490 | 1.2× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #958 | 0.4× |
| New York | 5 | #1,844 | 0.7× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #819 | 0.8× |
| Arizona | 5 | #962 | 0.2× |
Where Ewan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ewan is most over-represented in Washington: since 1972 it was given 1.8 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 Ewan 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 7,738 babies since 1880, Ewan is the second most given (42% of them). In 2025 it was given to 120 of their 187 babies (64%), the 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 Ewan
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 Ewan and names like it
- Compare Ewan and EvinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sEwan peaked in 2013.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ewan since 1910.
- Scottish Gaelic namesWiktionary’s origin for Ewan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Ewan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ewan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.