Ewan

Ewan
Pronunciation /ˈjuːən/
Gender Male
Origin
Word/name Pictish
Meaning Born of the Yew (Tree)
Region of origin Scotland
Other names
Related names Euan, Ewen, Eoghan, Iwan, Owen

Ewan is a Scottish, male given name, most common throughout the United Kingdom and Canada, due to the influence of Scots in both nations. It is a derivative of the Pictish name, Vuen (or 'Wen'), which is the Pictish British cognate of Eoghan in Gaelic.[1] It is also, less commonly, a surname.

It is said to mean "born of the yew (tree)"[2] and is also associated loosely with the Scottish divinity of the glen. In Gaelic etymology, Ewan implies a plethoric (red-faced) individual.

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.

Ewan is also a Latin word meaning Bacchus.[3]

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

See also

References

  1. ↑ From Pictland to Alba: 789-1070, Alex Woolf, Edinburgh University Press, 2007
  2. ↑ Ó Corráin, Donnchadh agus Maguire, Fidelma. Irish Names (1981, 1990). 87-88.
  3. ↑ http://www.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?stem=euan
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