Ewing
Ewing was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 1,202 Americans have been recorded with it between 1882 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ewing by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ewing mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ewing is “an unknown-gender given name transferred from the surname.”
/ˈjuːwɪŋ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ewing?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,719, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
43 babies in 1925, the peak
Ewing peaked in 1925, when 43 boys were given it, #1,056 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #12,719 | 2.9 |
| 2015 | 6 | #11,104 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 5 | #12,651 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,266 | 3.2 |
| 2009 | 6 | #11,438 | 3.0 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,754 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,533 | 2.4 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,093 | 3.9 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,730 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,570 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (84)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 5 | #6,111 | 3.0 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,342 | 3.2 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,107 | 4.0 |
| 1970 | 11 | #2,951 | 5.9 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,153 | 2.9 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,081 | 2.7 |
| 1961 | 10 | #2,766 | 4.7 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,221 | 2.3 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,381 | 3.3 |
| 1957 | 10 | #2,710 | 4.6 |
| 1956 | 13 | #2,309 | 6.1 |
| 1955 | 12 | #2,341 | 5.8 |
| 1954 | 9 | #2,811 | 4.4 |
| 1953 | 13 | #2,216 | 6.6 |
| 1952 | 11 | #2,414 | 5.7 |
| 1951 | 13 | #2,169 | 6.9 |
| 1950 | 7 | #3,130 | 3.9 |
| 1949 | 12 | #2,258 | 6.8 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,144 | 7.4 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,102 | 7.7 |
| 1946 | 15 | #1,905 | 9.2 |
| 1945 | 7 | #2,834 | 5.2 |
| 1944 | 16 | #1,764 | 11.7 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,045 | 4.9 |
| 1942 | 29 | #1,302 | 21.0 |
| 1941 | 17 | #1,712 | 13.8 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,226 | 9.5 |
| 1939 | 19 | #1,549 | 17.2 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,015 | 11.7 |
| 1937 | 14 | #1,937 | 13.1 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,100 | 11.6 |
| 1935 | 31 | #1,211 | 29.8 |
| 1934 | 18 | #1,686 | 17.4 |
| 1933 | 21 | #1,515 | 21.2 |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,741 | 17.2 |
| 1931 | 20 | #1,601 | 19.2 |
| 1930 | 19 | #1,715 | 17.3 |
| 1929 | 17 | #1,883 | 15.8 |
| 1928 | 29 | #1,363 | 26.2 |
| 1927 | 30 | #1,357 | 26.6 |
| 1926 | 27 | #1,414 | 24.3 |
| 1925 | 43 | #1,056 | 38.5 |
| 1924 | 31 | #1,338 | 27.4 |
| 1923 | 32 | #1,285 | 29.2 |
| 1922 | 36 | #1,203 | 33.1 |
| 1921 | 33 | #1,271 | 30.0 |
| 1920 | 33 | #1,261 | 31.0 |
| 1919 | 27 | #1,395 | 27.5 |
| 1918 | 24 | #1,507 | 23.7 |
| 1917 | 38 | #1,083 | 41.1 |
| 1916 | 29 | #1,248 | 32.6 |
| 1915 | 35 | #1,092 | 41.2 |
| 1914 | 23 | #1,237 | 35.1 |
| 1913 | 24 | #1,030 | 46.8 |
| 1912 | 21 | #1,008 | 48.8 |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,219 | 39.8 |
| 1910 | 14 | #834 | 72.1 |
| 1909 | 5 | #1,529 | 30.5 |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,028 | 54.5 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,268 | 39.0 |
| 1902 | 11 | #704 | 89.7 |
| 1901 | 6 | #985 | 56.4 |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,380 | 33.2 |
| 1898 | 9 | #770 | 73.4 |
| 1897 | 6 | #985 | 53.2 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,153 | 41.8 |
| 1895 | 10 | #712 | 85.2 |
| 1893 | 6 | #942 | 53.4 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,126 | 41.0 |
| 1890 | 6 | #930 | 54.0 |
| 1887 | 7 | #774 | 69.0 |
| 1885 | 10 | #615 | 92.8 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,021 | 43.7 |
| 1882 | 7 | #783 | 61.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ewing a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ewing has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 84 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ewing: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ewing, and how old are they?
An estimated 244 Americans named Ewing and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (20% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 53 and 80. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 434 people named Ewing (15 women and girls, 419 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 313 born in the U.S. The Census count is 39% 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.
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 Ewing born?
The states with the most babies named Ewing are Tennessee, Kentucky and Pennsylvania, with 92% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Tennessee and Kentucky are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 139 | not ranked | 5.1× |
| Kentucky | 78 | not ranked | 2.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Texas | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Oklahoma | 6 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Missouri | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Ewing is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ewing is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1910 it was given 5.1 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 Ewing with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ewing
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 Ewing and names like it
- Compare Ewing and WorthBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sEwing peaked in 1925.
- Tennessee’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ewing since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Ewing: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1925The year the most babies were named Ewing.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Ewing alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with EMost given first.