Ewan
Sir Ewan Cameron of Lochiel
Pronunciation/ˈjuːən/
GenderMasculine
Origin
Word/nameScottish Gaelic or Pictish
Region of originScotland
Other names
Related namesEuan, Ewen, Evan, Eoghan, Iwan, Owen, John

Ewan is an anglicisation of the Scottish Gaelic name Eòghann. It is possibly a derivative of the Pictish name, Uuen (or 'Wen'), "The Warrior"[1] or "born of the mountain".[2] It is most common as a male given name in Scotland and Canada. It is also, less commonly, a surname, especially among the Scottish Clans, examples of variation in spelling include McEwan’s beer and MacEwan University.

Owain is the predominant Welsh spelling of the name (or Owen when Anglicized), but Iwan and Iuan are also found, as they are in Cornish. Ouen can be considered the French or Breton spelling of the name. Another meaning of these could mean Yew Tree or ‘well born’ in Celtic languages.

Ewan is also a Latin word meaning Bacchus.[3] Ewan is sometimes incorrectly seen as a cognate to John and its variations. Ewen or Ewan is also a Scottish surname, as in Clan MacEwen.

People with the given name

In the arts and media

In sports

In other fields

  • Ewan Birney (born 1972), British bioinformatician
  • Ewan Anderson (born 1938), expert on geopolitics, economic and social geography

Characters

  • Ewan, a character from the TV series Merlin Season 1 Episode 2
  • Ewan O'Hara, Juliet O'Hara's brother on the TV series Psych
  • Ewan, a guard in the book The Wizard's Child
  • Ewan Doherty, Head of English in Teachers, a UK Channel 4 show
  • Ewan the Dream Sheep, a popular baby sleeping toy
  • Ewan Cameron, a minor character in Dragonfly in Amber, second book in the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon
  • Ewan Zschoch

See also

References

  1. ↑ From Pictland to Alba: 789-1070, Alex Woolf, Edinburgh University Press, 2007
  2. ↑ From Pictland to Alba: 789-1070, Alex Woolf, Edinburgh University Press, 2007
  3. ↑ "Latin Word Lookup". www.archives.nd.edu.
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