Eoghan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: 'Well born'; Celtic name identical in sense to Greek Eugene
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/iːɒɡan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Eoghan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ireland than in any other country.
- 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)
- Sources
- 155 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
'Well born'; Celtic name identical in sense to Greek Eugene. Sometimes used to translate Eugene or John; Scottish Ewen may be related.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Eoghan 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Eoghan is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, Used to translate Eugene; Irish name.
as a nameIrish first names
In Scottish Gaelic, alternative form of Eòghann
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Owen Roe O'Neillb. 1590IEnot in their usual nameIrish miltary commander
- Eoghan Ó Tuairiscb. 1919IEIrish poet (1919–1982)
- Eoghan Harrisb. 1943IEIrish journalist
- Eoghan Fitzsimonsb. 1949IEIrish lawyer
- Eoghan Mahonyb. 1953USAmerican television producer anad writer
- Eoghan Corryb. 1961IEIrish journalist and writer
- Eoghan Cliffordb. 1980IEIrish cyclist
- Eoghan Murphyb. 1982IEIrish politician
- Eoghan O'Connellb. 1995IEIrish footballer
- Eoghan Mac Giolla BhrídeIEIrish writer and filmmaker
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 453 | #22,112 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2009 | 220 | #39 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 1999 | 181 | #41 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2008 | 179 | #48 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2005 | 171 | #41 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2012 | 166 | #53 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2011 | 164 | #55 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2001 | 162 | #44 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2003 | 158 | #41 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2010 | 157 | #55 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2007 | 154 | #52 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2000 | 153 | #47 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Eoghan?
- A machine transcription gives /iːɒɡan/ (IPA) for English.
- Where does the name Eoghan come from?
- 'Well born'; Celtic name identical in sense to Greek Eugene. Sometimes used to translate Eugene or John; Scottish Ewen may be related. Recorded by Irish first names.
- What are other forms of the name Eoghan?
- In the etymology graph, Ewan and Ewen are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Eoghan mean?
- Recorded meaning: 'Well born'; Celtic name identical in sense to Greek Eugene.
- Is Eoghan a male or female name?
- Eoghan 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 Eoghan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Eoghan in Ireland, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled eoghan.
- How common is the name Eoghan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 453 people named Eoghan in 2020, about 1 in 734 thousand residents.
- How common is Eoghan compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Eoghan is the 245th most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Eoghan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/eoghanThe 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, “Eoghan” — the 245th most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.