Ewen
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from the Gaelic male personal name Edgann, a Gaelic form of Latin Eugenius, from Greek Eugenios 'well-born'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɛwɛn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ewen is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 33K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 53K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 213 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the Gaelic male personal name Edgann, a Gaelic form of Latin Eugenius, from Greek Eugenios 'well-born'.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ewen 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 14K | Ewen | 213 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 53K | 3 | Ewen | 18 |
| AU Australia | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 55K | 1 | — | — |
| US United States | 285 | 1 in 1.2M | 1.9K | Ewen | 24 |
| CA Canada | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 243K | 2 | Ewen | 14 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 11 | — | 5 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)
Ewen is also recorded in 2 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 male given name from Scottish Gaelic, variant of Ewan.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nij, they
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)
- Owen Davisb. 1874USnot in their usual nameAmerican dramatist (1874–1956)
- Owen Willans Richardsonb. 1879GBnot in their usual nameBritish physicist (1879-1959)
- Owen Chamberlainb. 1920USnot in their usual nameAmerican physicist
- Frank Gehryb. 1929USnot in their usual nameCanadian and American architect (1929–2025)
- David O. Russellb. 1958USnot in their usual nameAmerican film director, screenwriter and producer
- Richard Borcherdsb. 1959GBnot in their usual nameBritish-American mathematician (born 1959)
- Owen Hartb. 1965CAnot in their usual nameCanadian wrestler (1965-1999)
- Owen Wilsonb. 1968USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (born 1968)
- Owen Hargreavesb. 1981GBnot in their usual nameEnglish association football player
- Owen Klineb. 1991USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 59 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.9K | #14,168 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.9K | #15,520 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #15,448 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 1 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- How do you pronounce Ewen?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛwɛn/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Ewen mean, and where does it come from?
- from the Gaelic male personal name Edgann, a Gaelic form of Latin Eugenius, from Greek Eugenios 'well-born'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Is Ewen a male or female name?
- Ewen is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Ewen?
- In the etymology graph, Ewan and Eoghan are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Ewen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.0 thousand people named Ewen in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ewen.
- How common is the name Ewen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 285 people named Ewen in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ewenThe 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, “Ewen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.