Updated June 9, 2019

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Boy name origins & meanings

  • English : Friend of the law

Boy name variations

Ewing

Ewing

0 % this year
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Ewan

Ewan

+ 7% this year
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Ewen

Ewen

- 55% this year
Masculine
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Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish and northern English : from the personal name Ewart, an Anglo-Norman French form of Edward.
  • Scottish and northern English : occupational name for a shepherd, from Middle English ewehirde, from Old English eowu ‘ewe’ + hierde ‘herdsman’.
  • Scottish and northern English : habitational name from a place in Northumbria named Ewart, from Old English ēa ‘river’ + wor{dh} ‘enclosure’; it is enclosed on three sides by the rivers Glen and Till.