Ewe
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Eu, Seine-Maritime; first attested Hugh de Auco 1148 Winton (Ha)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/eɪveɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ewe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 451K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.4M
- BRBrazil1 in 2.2M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 89 (measured from records)
- 1 in 451K (inferred from the name graph)
96 people
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Eu, Seine-Maritime; first attested Hugh de Auco 1148 Winton (Ha)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ewe counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
96 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ewe is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A female sheep, as opposed to a ram.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, long., people, Africa
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, mbala ha
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In fro, alternative form of iaue (“water”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, Ewe (member of a West African ethnic group)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- August Eweb. 1875SESwedish architect (1875–1956)
- Herbert Eweb. 1921DEGerman archivist and regional historian (1921–2006)
- Paul Eweb. 1933DEGerman association football player (1933–2021)
- Donna Eweb. 1964rugby player
- Eogene Eweb. 2005MYbadminton player
- David EweNZNew Zealand rugby league footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 96 | #65,319 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 13 | #32,794 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 12 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 6 | #89,778 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #257,647 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2 | #142,941 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #326,813 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ewe mean, and where does it come from?
- from Eu, Seine-Maritime; first attested Hugh de Auco 1148 Winton (Ha) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- What are other forms of the name Ewe?
- In the etymology graph, Aue is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Ewe?
- A machine transcription gives /eɪveɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ewe have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 96 people named Ewe, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ewe most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ewe is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 451 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ewe?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 96 people named Ewe, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/eweThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ewe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.