Ewing

Where Ewing comes from

The dictionaries list Ewing as a given name — an unknown-gender given name transferred from the surname — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1880
    Ewing Galloway born
    American lawyer and journalist
  2. 1882
    First appearance
    #754 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1885
    Peak, #604
    10 babies named Ewing — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1886
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  5. 1910
    Ewing Mitchell born
    actor
In the dictionary
  • An unknown-gender given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Ewing Mitchell · actor, 1910–1988
  • Ewing Galloway · American lawyer and journalist, 1880–1953
  • Ewing Kauffman · American pharmaceutical entrepreneur, philanthropist, and Major League Baseball team owner, 1916–1993
  • Ewing Thomas Kerr · United States federal judge, 1900–1992
  • Ewing Young · American fur trapper, 1799–1841

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.