Euan

Where Euan comes from

The dictionaries list Euan as a given name — a male given name from Scottish Gaelic — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Scottish Gaelic
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1986
    First appearance
    #6,721 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2012
    Peak, #3,714
    28 babies named Euan — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2017
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #6,338.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Scottish Gaelic.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Euan hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.