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The EWAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,017 23346 0 4
United States (1880 census) 344 12888 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +673 -10458 +N/A -3
Other Countries
Australia 103 13913 0.001 6
United Kingdom 701 6906 0.002 15
Top States for EWAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Jersey 111 8637 0.001 13
Florida 80 20124 0.001 5
California 68 31620 0.000 2
Pennsylvania 58 23659 0.000 5
Illinois 56 22571 0.000 5
Top States for EWAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 25 3570 0.004 40
Montana 30 4365 0.003 33
Kansas 56 5709 0.002 21
Wyoming 9 7596 0.002 18
New Jersey 111 8637 0.001 13

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called EWAN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called EWAN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called EWAN in New Jersey than any other state, but you are more likely to find a EWAN by picking someone at random in Alaska than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of EWAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the EWAN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the EWAN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of EWAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 841 82.69
Black/African American 106 10.42
Native American/Alaskan 36 3.54
White (Hispanic) 12 1.18
Asian/Pacific 11 1.08
Mixed Race 11 1.08

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the EWAN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of EWAN in historical publications

MAC EWAN. (ClanEoghannaHoitreic, or clan Ewen of Otter, whose castle was on the coast of Lochfiue.) Descended from a common ancestor with the Maclachlaus. Skene. MACEY. 1 . From Macel near Avranches in Normandj\ 2. Maci is also an old Norman form of Matthew.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to EWAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as EWAN.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for EWAN

The following words are slight variants of EWAN that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.