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Eoghan

Proto-Celtic roots

Language contexts for this entry: English, Dutch, Irish

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Origin: Proto-Celtic
3 language contexts: English Dutch Irish
Follow the evidence: 8 cited sources Source-reported

01 / Meaning & origin

About Eoghan

Eoghan is a masculine given name documented in English, Dutch and Irish. English Wiktionary traces it to Proto-Celtic via Middle Irish.

2 source accounts

Proto-Celtic origin

Source-reported

From Middle Irish Eógan, from Primitive Irish ᚔᚃᚑᚌᚓᚅᚔ (ivogeni, gen.sg.), from Proto-Celtic *Iwogenos (literally “yew-born”). Cognate with Scottish Gaelic Eòghann. Sometimes conflated or confused with the etymologically unrelated name Eoin (“John”), with which the vocative/genitive form Eoghain is homophonous.

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Read from more recent borrowed forms toward older source forms. This is a derivation account, not a dated timeline.

Middle Irish
Proto-Celtic

Only explicit language links are shown. The full passage may also discuss word roots, comparisons or uncertain proposals.

Proto-language forms marked with an asterisk in the source are reconstructions, rather than dated records of a person using the name.

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Sources for this account (4)

Wiktionary: EoghanCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: EoghanCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spanish Wiktionary: EoghanCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Dutch Wiktionary: EoghanCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

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Polish Wiktionary accountSource-reportedirl.

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Polish Wiktionary: EoghanCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

02 / Across borders

Where Eoghan is used

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6 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Statistics + language records

United States, 2025: 19 boys (rank 5045). Documented as a given name in English.

Explore United States

4 of 13 countries

03 / By the numbers

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

Ireland

1964–2025 Spelling: Eoghan

Region and dataset

Recorded category boys

Latest · 2025: 41; births; Rank #132
Peak year: 2009; 223 births

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Source: Central Statistics Office · Ireland — babies' first names with three or more occurrences, 1964–2025

Published integer counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

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Eoghan in Ireland, boys: births and rank by year
Year	Births	Rank	Status
1964	9	164	observed
1965	7	181	observed
1966	10	159	observed
1967	13	152	observed
1968	13	156	observed
1969	13	163	observed
1970	9	197	observed
1971	36	115	observed
1972	35	122	observed
1973	46	111	observed
1974	37	117	observed
1975	44	108	observed
1976	57	104	observed
1977	53	109	observed
1978	61	103	observed
1979	55	105	observed
1980	75	89	observed
1981	63	95	observed
1982	84	82	observed
1983	72	88	observed
1984	70	86	observed
1985	79	83	observed
1986	90	76	observed
1987	89	76	observed
1988	94	74	observed
1989	111	64	observed
1990	120	63	observed
1991	121	62	observed
1992	119	65	observed
1993	127	58	observed
1994	117	61	observed
1995	148	51	observed
1996	137	56	observed
1997	164	52	observed
1998	122	49	observed
1999	181	41	observed
2000	153	47	observed
2001	162	44	observed
2002	144	48	observed
2003	158	41	observed
2004	145	52	observed
2005	171	41	observed
2006	149	50	observed
2007	154	52	observed
2008	179	48	observed
2009	223	39	observed
2010	160	55	observed
2011	164	55	observed
2012	166	53	observed
2013	132	62	observed
2014	142	56	observed
2015	109	71	observed
2016	101	68	observed
2017	110	66	observed
2018	88	77	observed
2019	63	108	observed
2020	81	79	observed
2021	62	102	observed
2022	48	127	observed
2023	49	115	observed
2024	51	109	observed
2025	41	132	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Statistics count the spelling “Eoghan” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: First given names on Irish birth registrations; CSO tables VSA50 (boys) and VSA60 (girls). From 2017, births registered during the calendar year.
Rounding: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: CSO publishes names with three or more occurrences. Null cells are not emitted; absence is unknown, not zero.
Ranking: Published ranks from VSA50C02 and VSA60C02 retained unchanged, including ties.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC-BY-4.0

Read our methodology

04 / Through time

History

Historical scholarship

Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.

1884From the archives
EOGHAN— “young warrior”
Eoghan, in Scotland, is pronounced Yō-hăn, and indiscriminately translated by Evan, Ewan, and Hugh. Several of the early kings, who are all numbered together in Scotland as Eugenius, were properly Eoghan, and Evan or Ewan is certainly the right Anglicism, though Hugh is made to do duty for these as well as for Aodh.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part V, Chapter IV (Names Of Cymric Romance), Section IV (Gwalchmai, Sir Gawain, and Sir Owen) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)

Notable bearers

People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.

Owen Roe O'Neill
1590–1649
Irish miltary commander
Recorded as a middle or baptismal name
Wikipedia Wikidata source

A little story to keep

A name worth keeping.

Take the story of Eoghan with you. Create a personal name passport with its meaning, roots and connections.

06 / Behind the facts

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-17.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms6

Wikidata Q54476850CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: EoghanCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Dutch Wiktionary: EoghanCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Greek Wiktionary: EoghanCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spanish Wiktionary: EoghanCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: EoghanCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences1

Wikimedia Commons: File:Nl-Eoghan.oggCC-BY-SA-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Historical referencesOriginal texts and their publication details1

Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part V, Chapter IV (Names Of Cymric Romance), Section IV (Gwalchmai, Sir Gawain, and Sir Owen)Public domain (Project Gutenberg) · rev. 2023-03-30 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates9

Ireland — babies' first names with three or more occurrences, 1964–2025
Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ireland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
National Records of Scotland — Babies' First Names: all first forenames given to 3 or more babies, Scotland, 1974-2025
National Records of Scotland (NRS) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
NISRA — First Forenames Given to Babies Registered in Northern Ireland, 1997-2025 (full list)
Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Baby names in England and Wales: 2025 (boys and girls workbooks, Table 6: all published names)
Office for National Statistics (ONS) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Ontario top baby names, historical archive 1917–2013
Government of Ontario (Office of the Registrar General) · OGL-ON-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Ontario first baby names, 1913–2023 (verified redistribution)
Government of Ontario; redistributed by helloharun · OGL-ON-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

Opening name…

About Eoghan

Eoghan is a masculine given name documented in English, Dutch and Irish. English Wiktionary traces it to Proto-Celtic via Middle Irish.

2 source accounts

Proto-Celtic origin

Source-reported

Follow the language links in this account

Read from more recent borrowed forms toward older source forms. This is a derivation account, not a dated timeline.

Middle Irish
Proto-Celtic

Only explicit language links are shown. The full passage may also discuss word roots, comparisons or uncertain proposals.

Proto-language forms marked with an asterisk in the source are reconstructions, rather than dated records of a person using the name.

Read the cited Wiktionary entry

Sources for this account (4)

Wiktionary: EoghanCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: EoghanCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spanish Wiktionary: EoghanCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Dutch Wiktionary: EoghanCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Explore 1 more accountHide additional accountsSource accounts may describe the same origin.

Polish Wiktionary accountSource-reportedirl.

irl.

Sources for this account (1)

Polish Wiktionary: EoghanCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Where Eoghan is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Eoghan’s connections around the world.

6 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Statistics + language records

United States, 2025: 19 boys (rank 5045). Documented as a given name in English.

Explore United States

4 of 13 countries

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

Ireland

1964–2025 Spelling: Eoghan

Region and dataset

Recorded category boys

Latest · 2025: 41; births; Rank #132
Peak year: 2009; 223 births

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: Central Statistics Office · Ireland — babies' first names with three or more occurrences, 1964–2025

Published integer counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Eoghan in Ireland, boys: births and rank by year
Year	Births	Rank	Status
1964	9	164	observed
1965	7	181	observed
1966	10	159	observed
1967	13	152	observed
1968	13	156	observed
1969	13	163	observed
1970	9	197	observed
1971	36	115	observed
1972	35	122	observed
1973	46	111	observed
1974	37	117	observed
1975	44	108	observed
1976	57	104	observed
1977	53	109	observed
1978	61	103	observed
1979	55	105	observed
1980	75	89	observed
1981	63	95	observed
1982	84	82	observed
1983	72	88	observed
1984	70	86	observed
1985	79	83	observed
1986	90	76	observed
1987	89	76	observed
1988	94	74	observed
1989	111	64	observed
1990	120	63	observed
1991	121	62	observed
1992	119	65	observed
1993	127	58	observed
1994	117	61	observed
1995	148	51	observed
1996	137	56	observed
1997	164	52	observed
1998	122	49	observed
1999	181	41	observed
2000	153	47	observed
2001	162	44	observed
2002	144	48	observed
2003	158	41	observed
2004	145	52	observed
2005	171	41	observed
2006	149	50	observed
2007	154	52	observed
2008	179	48	observed
2009	223	39	observed
2010	160	55	observed
2011	164	55	observed
2012	166	53	observed
2013	132	62	observed
2014	142	56	observed
2015	109	71	observed
2016	101	68	observed
2017	110	66	observed
2018	88	77	observed
2019	63	108	observed
2020	81	79	observed
2021	62	102	observed
2022	48	127	observed
2023	49	115	observed
2024	51	109	observed
2025	41	132	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: First given names on Irish birth registrations; CSO tables VSA50 (boys) and VSA60 (girls). From 2017, births registered during the calendar year.
Rounding: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: CSO publishes names with three or more occurrences. Null cells are not emitted; absence is unknown, not zero.
Ranking: Published ranks from VSA50C02 and VSA60C02 retained unchanged, including ties.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC-BY-4.0

Read our methodology

History

Historical scholarship

Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.

1884From the archives
EOGHAN— “young warrior”
Eoghan, in Scotland, is pronounced Yō-hăn, and indiscriminately translated by Evan, Ewan, and Hugh. Several of the early kings, who are all numbered together in Scotland as Eugenius, were properly Eoghan, and Evan or Ewan is certainly the right Anglicism, though Hugh is made to do duty for these as well as for Aodh.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part V, Chapter IV (Names Of Cymric Romance), Section IV (Gwalchmai, Sir Gawain, and Sir Owen) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)

Notable bearers

People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.

Owen Roe O'Neill
1590–1649
Irish miltary commander
Recorded as a middle or baptismal name
Wikipedia Wikidata source

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-17.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms6

Wikidata Q54476850CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: EoghanCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Dutch Wiktionary: EoghanCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Greek Wiktionary: EoghanCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spanish Wiktionary: EoghanCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: EoghanCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences1

Wikimedia Commons: File:Nl-Eoghan.oggCC-BY-SA-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Historical referencesOriginal texts and their publication details1

Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part V, Chapter IV (Names Of Cymric Romance), Section IV (Gwalchmai, Sir Gawain, and Sir Owen)Public domain (Project Gutenberg) · rev. 2023-03-30 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates9

Ireland — babies' first names with three or more occurrences, 1964–2025
Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ireland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
National Records of Scotland — Babies' First Names: all first forenames given to 3 or more babies, Scotland, 1974-2025
National Records of Scotland (NRS) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
NISRA — First Forenames Given to Babies Registered in Northern Ireland, 1997-2025 (full list)
Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Baby names in England and Wales: 2025 (boys and girls workbooks, Table 6: all published names)
Office for National Statistics (ONS) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Ontario top baby names, historical archive 1917–2013
Government of Ontario (Office of the Registrar General) · OGL-ON-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Ontario first baby names, 1913–2023 (verified redistribution)
Government of Ontario; redistributed by helloharun · OGL-ON-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

Eoghan

About Eoghan

Proto-Celtic origin

Where Eoghan is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

Ireland

History

Historical scholarship

Notable bearers

Owen Roe O'Neill

Owen

Tyrone

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

Eoghan

About Eoghan

Proto-Celtic origin

Where Eoghan is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

Ireland

History

Historical scholarship

Notable bearers

Owen Roe O'Neill

Owen

Tyrone

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Eoghan

Proto-Celtic origin

Where Eoghan is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

Ireland

History

Historical scholarship

Notable bearers

Owen Roe O'Neill

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

Owen

Tyrone

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Eoghan

Proto-Celtic origin

Where Eoghan is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

Ireland

History

Historical scholarship

Notable bearers

Owen Roe O'Neill

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

Owen

Tyrone

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page