Eoghán
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Eoghán is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ireland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Irish Eógan, from Primitive Irish ᚔᚃᚑᚌᚓᚅᚔ (ivogeni, gen.sg.), from Proto-Celtic *Iwogenos (literally “yew-born”). Cognate with Scottish Gaelic Eòghan.
- IEIreland≈1 in 3.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 158K
- USUnited States1 in 734K
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.
- Ireland (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 155 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Eoghan in IE Ireland, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Old IrishEógan(measured from records)
- Primitive Irishᚔᚃᚑᚌᚓᚅᚔivogeni(measured from records)
- Proto-Celtic*Iwogenos“yew-born”(measured from records)
From Old Irish Eógan, from Primitive Irish ᚔᚃᚑᚌᚓᚅᚔ (ivogeni, gen.sg.), from Proto-Celtic *Iwogenos (literally “yew-born”). Cognate with Scottish Gaelic Eòghan.
Cited for this meaning 2
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Eoghán 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IE Ireland | #245 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | 88 | Eoghan | 130 |
| US United States | — | 453 | 1 in 734K | 453 | Eoghan | 155 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 158K | 13 | Eoghan | 136 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 116K | 1 | Eoghan | 51 |
| BR Brazil | — | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | — | Eoghan | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 339K | — | Eoghan | 16 |
| IS Iceland | — | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
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: CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Eoghán mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Irish Eógan, from Primitive Irish ᚔᚃᚑᚌᚓᚅᚔ (ivogeni, gen.sg.), from Proto-Celtic *Iwogenos (literally “yew-born”). Cognate with Scottish Gaelic Eòghan. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Wiktionary.
- Is Eoghán a male or female name?
- Eoghán 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.
- In which country does Eoghán have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Eoghán in Ireland, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled eoghan.
- How common is the name Eoghán?
- In the United States, the national register counted 453 people named Eoghán in 2020, about 1 in 734 thousand residents.
- How common is Eoghán compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Eoghán is the 245th most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/eogh%C3%A1nThe 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, “Eoghán” — the 245th most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.