# Eoghan (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/eoghan/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Irish |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 507 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 507 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 402, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 15 | 5,755 |
| 2012 | 21 | 4,584 |
| 2013 | 16 | 5,463 |
| 2014 | 25 | 4,046 |
| 2015 | 29 | 3,721 |
| 2016 | 23 | 4,366 |
| 2017 | 21 | 4,643 |
| 2018 | 18 | 5,164 |
| 2019 | 10 | 7,803 |
| 2020 | 21 | 4,592 |
| 2021 | 22 | 4,531 |
| 2022 | 27 | 4,021 |
| 2023 | 20 | 4,934 |
| 2024 | 19 | 5,120 |
| 2025 | 19 | 5,087 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 17 | 1,398 |
| 2012 | 20 | 1,270 |
| 2013 | 23 | 1,116 |
| 2014 | 16 | 1,486 |
| 2015 | 14 | 1,673 |
| 2016 | 15 | 1,627 |
| 2017 | 12 | 1,923 |
| 2018 | 7 | 2,693 |
| 2019 | 7 | 2,728 |
| 2020 | 13 | 1,723 |
| 2021 | 11 | 1,984 |
| 2022 | 5 | 3,449 |
| 2023 | 7 | 2,813 |
| 2024 | 5 | 3,688 |
| 2025 | 9 | 2,440 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.