# Ewald (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ewald/  
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 | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 922 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 922 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1934 | 15 | 1,882 |
| 1935 | 9 | 2,593 |
| 1936 | 19 | 1,560 |
| 1937 | 15 | 1,855 |
| 1938 | 11 | 2,239 |
| 1939 | 8 | 2,677 |
| 1941 | 8 | 2,725 |
| 1942 | 9 | 2,579 |
| 1943 | 8 | 2,807 |
| 1944 | 6 | 3,230 |
| 1951 | 7 | 3,159 |
| 1952 | 5 | 3,911 |
| 1954 | 5 | 4,002 |
| 1955 | 6 | 3,638 |
| 1957 | 10 | 2,710 |

## People named Ewald

- Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal (1881–1954)
- Ewald André Dupont, film director (1891-1956)
- Ewald Lienen, German association football player and manager
- Ewald Balser, actor (1898-1978)
- Ewald Ammende, Baltic German journalist, human rights activist and politician (1893-1936)
- Ewald Mataré, German artist (1887-1965)
- Ewald von Lochow, German general (1855–1942)
- Ewald Tilker, Canoe racer (1911–1998)
- Ewald Wollny, German agricultural physicist (1846–1901)
- Ewald Kluge, German motorcyclist (1909–1964)
- Ewald Wenck, actor (1891-1981)
- Ewald von Demandowsky, German film producer (1906-1946)

## 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.